The Discovery of Global Warming

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List of illustrations

People:
Akio Arakawa
Svante Arrhenius
Bert Bolin
Wallace ("Wally") Broecker
Reid Bryson
Jule Charney, Norman Phillips, Princeton Group
Willi Dansgaard, Chet Langway, Hans Oeschger
Jack Eddy
Maurice ("Doc") Ewing


James ("Jim") Hansen
Charles D. ("Dave") Keeling
Syukuro ("Suki") Manabe
J. Murray Mitchell, Jr.
Veerabhadran ("Ram") Ramanathan
Roger Revelle
Stephen Schneider
Hans Suess
Robert ("Bob") White

Graphs:
Keeling's first observation of CO2 rise, 1960
Keeling's Mauna Loa CO2 curve as of 1971
Keeling's curve through 2002
Camp Century ice temperatures for 15,000 years
Vostok temperatures and CO2 for 150,000 years
Broecker and Emiliani's sawtooth glacial cycles


Callendar's 20th-century temperatures
20th-century temperatures through 1982
Global temperatures 1860-2002
The "hockey stick": 1000 years of temperatures

Diagrams:
"Wiring diagrams" of feedback interconnections... Big
A primitive box model for carbon flow
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Schematic planet in 1969 computer model
Real geography in 1975 computer model ... Big

Other Pictures:
Little America (Antarctica) 1956
Camp Century ice-core trench
Ice-core drillers (Andes, Greenland)

Vostok (Antarctica) drilling station
Deep-sea drilling
The Lamont deep-sea core library
The tundra flower dryas octopetala and its pollen
The foraminifer globigerinoides sacculifer
Princeton computer group with MANIAC I
Mariner 9 view of Martian polar cap


A cartoon view of the Office of Naval Research
NCAR labs, Boulder, CO
The 1930s Dust Bowl
The 1970s Sahel drought
Haze in the Grand Canyon
Arctic and alpine wildlife
Newsweek cover 1988
Calvin & Hobbes cartoon
Rockman mural, "Manifest Destiny"