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If you want basic facts about climate change, or detailed current technical information, you might do better using the links page. But if you want to use history to really understand it all...
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 bibliographyuse 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
DOWNLOAD entire site (Zip file)
PDF files to download and print
Order on CD-ROM
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 (C) 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 (C) AbleStock.
history of global warming - anthropogenic climate change - greenhouse effect history
If you want basic facts about climate change, or detailed current technical information, you might do better using the links page. But if you want to use history to really understand it all...
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 bibliographyuse 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
DOWNLOAD entire site (Zip file)
PDF files to download and print
Order on CD-ROM
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 (C) 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 (C) AbleStock.
history of global warming - anthropogenic climate change - greenhouse effect history
