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Where to Find Other Information
For information on climate change today, for basic facts try the
Global Warming FAQs from the Union of Concerned Scientists or the
multi-media
presentation by the National Academy of Sciences. Most newspapers,
magazines, and television are deeply inadequate on this topic. There are
many good books, but they go out of date quickly. Web sites worth visiting
at this time (July 2004) include:
Information and technical reports
A teachers'
guide from Carnegie-Mellon is one place to start
A U.S. government-sponsored Global Change
Research Information site includes answers to basic questions and
many news items
Realistic Ways You Can Combat Climate Change, Today
The interagency U.S. research program
includes news items and reports
assessing impacts
The IPCC sitehas technical reports
and summaries
The National Academy Press has many
key reports (search on "climate")
Congressional
Research Service reports
7 Crazy Things That Are Going To Happen As Sea Levels Rise
Controversy and action
Stephen Schneider's
climate change site has extensive resources on current science,
media relations, news, etc. and an essay on recent
controversies
The Pew Center on Climate Change offers
news and policy-related reports
The World Resources Institute
(mainstream environmentalism) has reports and What business can do
The industry-funded Cooler Heads
Coalition offers arguments against the IPCC consensus
The Marshall Institute gathers
conservative-motivated arguments
Greenpeace, Environmental Defense, and the National
Resources Defense Council, environmental activist organizations, have
basic climate change information, news, and programs for action, including
20
simple steps you can take
Hundreds of links from ClimateArk.
You can help scientists predict climate! Put your PC's
idle time to use by joining the team at climateprediction.net.
Two books on current science:
Houghton, John. 1997. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2nd ed.
*A good factual summary, although already dated
Langholz, Jeffrey, and Kelly Turner. 2003. You Can Prevent Global
Warming (and Save Money!): 51 Easy Ways. Kansas City, MO: Andrews
McMeel.
*Steps you can take
For the history, here are some useful printed works:
Christianson, Gale E. 1999. Greenhouse: The 200-year Story of Global
Warming. New York: Walker.
Edwards, Paul N. 2000. "A brief history of atmospheric general
circulation modeling." In General Circulation Model Development,
edited by D. A. Randall. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Fleagle, Robert G. 1992. "From the International Geophysical Year
to global change. "Reviews of Geophysics 30:
305-13.
Fleming, James R. 1998. Historical Perspectives on Climate Change.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Handel, Mark David, and James S. Risbey. 1992. "An annotated [historical]
bibliography on the greenhouse effect and climate change." Climatic
Change 21: 97-255.
Imbrie, John, and Katherine Palmer Imbrie. 1986. Ice Ages: Solving
the Mystery. Rev. Ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Jones, M.D.H., and A. Henderson-Sellers. 1990. "History of the
greenhouse effect. "Progress in Physical Geography 14:
1-18.
Kellogg, William W. 1987. "Mankind's impact on climate: The evolution
of an awareness." Climatic Change 10: 113-36.
Miller, Clark A., and Paul N. Edwards, eds. 2001. "Changing the
atmosphere. Expert knowledge and environmental governance." Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.
Nebeker, Frederik. 1995. Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in
the 20th Century. New York: Academic Press.
O'Riordan, Tim, and Jill Jäger. 1996. "The history of climate
change science and politics." In Politics of Climate Change:
A European Perspective, edited by T. O'Riordan and J. Jäger.
London: Routledge.
Rodhe, Henning, and Robert Charlson, eds. 1998. The Legacy of Svante
Arrhenius. Understanding the Greenhouse Effect. Stockholm: Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Schneider, Stephen H., and Randi Londer. 1984. The Co-evolution
of Climate and Life. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Stevens, William K. 1999. The Change in the Weather: People, Weather
and the Science of Climate. New York: Delacorte Press.
Weart, Spencer R. The Discovery of Global Warming. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University
Press, 2003 -Short
narrative version of this Website - reviews here.
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