Wallace Smith Broecker Professions : Professor Born : November 29, 1931 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Wallace Smith Broecker Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks Wallace Smith Broecker beast climate sticks The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges. Wallace Smith Broecker ornery climate self Similar Authors Bryan Stevenson professor Bruce Greenwald professor Bruce Ames professor Brian Wansink professor Brian Schmidt professor Brian Martin professor All Authors