#paleoclimate

Science has lost a giant. Wally Broecker of Lamont Doherty, Columbia University has passed away. In a career that spanned 6 decades, he was a pioneer in many aspects of what is done today in oceanography

I discuss some hypotheses for the Younger Dryas Period, a period where temperatures cooled in the middle of an overall warming trend. What is learned from this period has direct implications to today's