due to topic title & subject, i would have thought this quote from Broecker was more relevant.
"I can only see one element of the climate system capable of generating these fast, global changes, that is, changes in the tropical atmosphere leading to changes in the inventory of the earth's most powerful greenhouse gas, water vapor," Dr. Broecker said. "The quest must then be to discover the link between global ocean circulation and convective activity in the tropical atmosphere."
source = R.A. Daly Lecture. the American Geophysical Union meeting in Baltimore. May 21, 1996.
