- He joined the faculty of Columbia University as a professor of geology in 1959, and was known as the "grandfather of climate science".
- He was a climatologist who brought the term "global warming" into everyday use in a 1975 paper in which he correctly predicted that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere would lead to pronounced warming. He was also a pioneer in radiocarbon and isotope dating, which enables scientists to map the Earth's climate fluctuations over millions of years.
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