The author of the term global warming has passed away.

Broker deceased at the hospital New York after several months of illness on Monday, February 18th.

Wallace Smith Broker was born in Chicago in 1931. In 1977, he became a professor at Columbia University, where he worked all his life as a teacher in the Department of Geology and Environment. The scientist has written more than 500 articles and 14 books, including several textbooks. His main scientific interest was the role of the global ocean in shaping the Earth's climate.

A geologist is called the author and popularizer of the term "global warming," which he had used for the first time in the article "Climate change: are we on the eve of"? a spectacular global warming? " in 1975.

He predicts a rise in global temperatures resulting from rising carbon dioxide levels. because of human exposure to climate. After publication, the term was firmly rooted in scientific language instead of another, less accurate – "unintended climate change".