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Arnold and colleagues discovered radioactive isotopes of beryllium that are produced by cosmic rays. One of them, beryllium-10 with a half-life of 1.36 million years, can be used to trace long histories of rocks and soils. Roger Revelle recruited...
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“I always love to walk through that neighborhood,” said Carol Olten, historian at the La Jolla Historical Society. “Very charming, a very desirable area.” Those charms have not escaped the rich and/or famous. Roger Revelle, the late oceanographer and...
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Historian Hunts for Motives Behind Climate Change Doubt-Mongering: A Q&A with Naomi Oreskes
History News Network
Beyond that, it is a long story. Q: What attracted you to the climate change deniers? A: I fell into this. I was working on the history of oceanography, and came across the work of Roger Revelle, Dave Keeling and others who’d been working on climate...
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Historian Hunts for Motives Behind Climate Change Doubt-Mongering: A Q&A with Naomi Oreskes
Scientific American
Beyond that, it is a long story. Q: What attracted you to the climate change deniers? A: I fell into this. I was working on the history of oceanography, and came across the work of Roger Revelle, Dave Keeling and others who’d been working on climate...
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About Roger Revelle
Wikipedia
Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (March 7, 1909 — July 15, 1991) was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. The six-foot-four (193 cm) Revelle was often referred to as a... Full Article
