It was the first time this concept appeared in science journalism, and its author was Wallace S. Broecker , a marine geochemist and current Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University in New York. In his report, Broecker linked climate change to human action and predicted that increasing carbon dioxide emissions would decrease the oceans' ability to trap this gas from the atmosphere, raising the planet's temperature.
In 2009, during a visit to Spain to receive the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Broecker declared: “" It would be necessary to adopt stronger measures against climate change over the next few years. It has taken a long time to convince to the citizens that we are facing a serious and global problem.
Finally, in the last five years there has been a big change and people admit that there is a warming and that if emissions continue to increase the planet will get warmer. "Broecker remembers his use of the term" global warming "as" a coincidence ":" I just used the words for the headline. In that article he warned that we were on the verge of a pronounced warming, and it was 1975. A year later warming really began to be detected, so it was a very interesting prediction.
