"It's Going to Make a Huge Mess"
The man who coined the term "global warming" looks back at 35 years of climate change.
Wallace Broecker has written some 460 academic papers in his half-century-long career as ageologist. But this week, everyone seems to remember just one of them: an Aug. 8, 1975, paper inScience titled "Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?" It was the first time anyone used the term "global warming," and his paper's predictions about planetary warming proved remarkably accurate.
BEFORE: Kyetrak Glacier on the northern slope of Tibet's Cho Oyu mountain, photographed here in 1921.
AFTER: Water flows under the same Kyetrak Glacier almost a century later in 2009.
BEFORE: Tibet's Main Rongbuk Glacier in 1921.
AFTER: The snow has receded on Main Rongbuk by 2007.
On the northern slope of Mount Everest, the West Rongbuk Glacier, shown in 1921 and 2008, has also receded.
These images are part of a project, Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya, that showcases the work of photographer and mountaineer David Breashears.
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