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Second edition, revised
and updated (2008)
A GOOD PLACE TO START is the Summary of the history of climate change
science.
For a scholarly preface, look at Methodology
and Sources.
If you are somewhat familiar with the subject, you could select topics
from
the Table of Contents (site map).
You can download this site (Zip file) and
put in on your own hard drive or burn a CD-ROM,
or buy a CD-ROM
at cost, or print out individual essays using PDF
files. These files are for the August 2007 version and will
not include more recent updates.
You can Search
the entire text.
Basic navigation: On the right of each essay
are links to essays about other topics. Follow forward an arrow
to see how the events that you are reading about gave something
=> TO the other topic. Follow back an arrow
to track influence <= FROM the other topic. Double arrow
<=> shows MUTUAL interaction.
Click on a numbered note, e.g., (12) for references. Some notes, indicated thus: (12*) have additional text. In
the note, click on a reference to reach the bibliography—use
your browser's BACK
button to return.
Contents/Site Map September
2008 version
About this
site: TOP OF PAGE
Summary of the History of Climate
Change Science SEARCH
all the essays
Influences on climate
The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
Roger
Revelle's Discovery
Other Greenhouse Gases
Aerosols: Volcanoes, Dust, Clouds
Biosphere: How Life Alters Climate
Changing Sun, Changing Climate?
Interview
with Jack Eddy
Ocean Currents and Climate
Climate data
The Modern Temperature Trend
Rapid Climate Change
Abrupt climate
change
Uses of Radiocarbon Dating
Greenland
Ice Drilling (J. Genuth)
Past Climate Cycles
and Ice Ages
Temperatures from Fossil Shells
Theory
Simple Models of Climate Change
Chaos in the Atmosphere
Venus & Mars
General Circulation Models of Climate
Basic Radiation Calculations
Arakawa's Computation Device
GCM Family Tree (P. Edwards)
SEARCH
all the essays
LINKS
to basic and current information
Climate and society
Impacts of Global Warming
The Public and Climate Change (1)
(2)
Wintry Doom
Ice
Sheets and Rising Seas
Government: The View from
Washington
Climate Modification Schemes
Money
for Keeling: Monitoring CO2 Levels
International Cooperation
Climatology as a Profession
Reflections on the Scientific
Process
Conclusions: A
Personal Note
Talking
Points (pdf)
About this site History
in Hypertext - methods, sources
List of illustrations Please
contribute comments, corrections.
Author, Spencer Weart Reference/Utilities
Timeline of milestones
List
of external influences
BIBLIOGRAPHY by author
Bibliography by year
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This is mounted on the Web site of the Center
for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.
Discovery of Global Warming site created by Spencer
Weart with support from the American Institute of Physics, the
National Science Foundation and the Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation.
Copyright © 2003-2008 Spencer Weart and the American Institute of
Physics.
Index terms: climate change, global warming,
greenhouse effect, temperature change, history, science, geophysics, meteorology,
computer models, aerosols, ice. Book cover photo © AbleStock.
history
of global warming - anthropogenic climate change - greenhouse effect history
