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Roger Revelle was an American oceanographer and scientist who lived from 1909 to 1991. He co-authored a landmark 1957 article with Hans Suess that warned fossil fuel emissions could cause global warming, and a November 1957 report in The Hammond Times marked one of the earliest recorded uses of the term "global warming" in connection with his research. He described himself as the "grandfather of the greenhouse effect."
The Revelle factor describes the chemical resistance of the ocean's surface layer to absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide, a concept first described by Roger Revelle and Hans Suess in their 1957 article. It reflects the back-pressure created by carbonic acid chemistry, which limits how quickly carbon dioxide can enter the ocean surface. The term is now standard in climate science.
Revelle fought in the late 1950s to establish a University of California campus in San Diego rather than simply expanding UCLA, securing the La Jolla site against competing proposals for a downtown location. The first graduate students enrolled in 1960 and the first undergraduates in 1964. UC San Diego's first college is named Revelle College in his honor, though Herbert York, not Revelle, became the campus's first chancellor.
An article in Cosmos: A Journal of Emerging Issues appeared under Revelle's name as co-author alongside S. Fred Singer, arguing against drastic climate action. Revelle died in July 1991 before the article was published. His former graduate student Justin Lancaster said Revelle was "hoodwinked" into lending his name to it and was "intensely embarrassed" by the association. The article was drawn into the 1992 vice-presidential campaign and was even raised during the televised vice-presidential debate.
Charles David Keeling joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography staff in July 1956 to head the Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Program, which grew out of preparations for the International Geophysical Year that Revelle was instrumental in creating. Keeling began measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii and in Antarctica, generating data that became foundational to climate science.
Revelle received the Balzan Prize for Oceanography and Climatology in 1986 and the National Medal of Science in 1991, awarded by President George H. W. Bush. Earlier honors included the Alexander Agassiz Medal in 1963, the William Bowie Medal in 1968, and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1984. He was also elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1957.