1. Grandfather of Climate Science Wallace Smith Broecker passed away
• Climate scientist Wallace Smith Broecker, who popularised the term "global warming" has passed away in New York.
• Broecker brought "global warming" into common use with a 1975 paper that correctly predicted rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere would lead to pronounced warming.
• Broecker was also first to recognize what he called the Ocean Conveyor Belt, a global system of ocean currents circulating water and nutrients.
• He was known in science circles as the "Grandfather of Climate Science".
• He was also a pioneer in radiocarbon and isotope dating and became the first person to recognise what he called the ocean conveyor belt, a global network of currents affecting everything from air temperature to rain patterns.
• His discoveries were fundamental to interpreting Earth’s climate history.
• More recently, he advocated the mass deployment of carbon capture and storage technology because he felt it was already too late to rely only on a switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, but too early to take dangerous gambles on geoengineering.
2. Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal: First Indian Woman Flight Engineer
• Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal has created history by becoming the first Indian Woman Flight Engineer.
• She achieved the feat after completing the prestigious Flight Engineers’ course 112 Helicopter Unit, Air Force Station, Yelahanka.
• Commissioned in January 2015 in the engineering branch of the IAF, she has served as Chief of firing team and battery commander in a frontline Surface to Air Missile squadron.
• Jaiswal, hails from Chandigarh and has completed her Bachelor of Engineering degree from Punjab University.
3. First Ombudsman in BCCI
• The Supreme Court has appointed its former judge, Justice D K Jain as the first ombudsman for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
• Justice Jain was the first choice among six former apex court judges whose names were before the court
• The BCCI’s new constitution was approved by the apex court on 9 August with certain modifications
• In January 2015, the apex court had appointed a committee headed by retired Justice R.M. Lodha to suggest reforms for the BCCI as well as to determine punishment for those guilty in the IPL spot-fixing case.