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  • AN EARLY PREDICTOR of global warming, Roger Revelle helped to start the scientific debate on the issue in the late 1950s. He challenged the accepted notion that global warming was countered by the absorption of carbon dioxide from the oceans. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change; Revelle, Roger]

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