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The Discovery of Global Warming is both a book and a series of online articles. Both are kept up to date by climate science historian Dr. Spencer Weart.
The highly-acclaimed book tells the history of climate science, and the discovery of climate change, as a concise, single story. As a retired physicist, Spencer Weart supplements the information in the book with ongoing updates to a series of inter-linked articles on the website of the American Institute of Physics (AIP).
To help people who want to know more about the historical aspects of global warming and climate change, a list of links to Spencer Weart’s articles is made available at CO2Now.org.
The following links take you from CO2Now.org to the Discover Global Warming section of the AIP website.
Click "read more" to see the full list of links.
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)
Climate and society
Impacts of Global Warming
The Public and Climate Change (Part 1) (Part 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 by Spencer Weart
Talking Points (pdf)
References and Tools
TIMELINE of milestones
List of external influences
BIBLIOGRAPHY by author
Bibliography by year
List of illustrations
About the Online Articles
Table of Contents (AIP website)
Download the articles (ZIP file) to your computer (or CD burner)
Get individual articles as PDF files
About the Book
Reviews | What others say about the book
Buy the book | Harvard University Press
Buy the book | Amazon.com.
Foreign Languages | The first edition is translated and available in several languages.
 Background
About the author (Dr. Spencer Weart)
Methods & Sources
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