Making climate change history : documents from global warming's past by edited by Joshua P. Howe Part 1. The scientific "prehistory" of global warming: Joseph Fourier, "General remarks on the temperatures of the globe and the planetary spaces" (1824); John Tyndall, "The Bakerian lecture: on the absorption and radiation of heat by gases and vapours, and on the physical connexion of radiation, absorption, and conduction" (1861); Svante Arrhenius, "On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground" (1896); G. S. Callendar, "The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature" (1938)
Part 2. The Cold War roots of global warming: Roger Revelle and Hans E. Suess, "Carbon dioxide exchange between atmosphere and ocean and the question of an increase of atmospheric CO2 during the past decades" (1957); Roger Revelle, Testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations, February 8, 1956; Roger Revelle, Testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations, May 1, 1957; Howard T. Orville, "The impact of weather control on the cold war" (1958); National Science Foundation, Preliminary plans for a national center for atmospheric research (1959)
Part 3. Making global warming green: The Conservation Foundation, Implications of rising carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere (1963); President's Science Advisory Committee, Restoring the quality of our environment (1965); Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III, The limits to growth (1972); Study of man's impact on climate, inadvertent climate modification (1971); The Sierra Club, "International Committee Questionnaire: Five Year Plan" (1976); Michael McCloskey, "Criteria for international campaigns" (1982); National Climate Program Act of 1978; American Association for the Advancement of Science, Advisory Group on Climate Meeting, May 26, 1978; David Slade, "Action Flow, U.S. Carbon Dioxide Research and Assessment Program" (1979); David Slade, Letter to David Burns (1980); Al Gore, Testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, July 31, 1981; Rafe Pomerance, testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, February 24, 1984
Part 4. Climate change as controversy: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, "A study of climatological research as it pertains to intelligence problems" (1974); S. I. Rasool and S. H. Schneider, "Atmospheric carbon dioxide and aerosols: effects of large increases on global climate" (1971); Reid Bryson, "A perspective on climate change" (1974); Stephen H. Schneider, The genesis strategy (1976); Helmut E. Landsberg, "Review: The genesis strategy - climate and global survival" (1976); Stephen H. Schneider and Helmut E. Landsberg, "Forum" (1977); National Academy of Sciences, "Carbon dioxide and climate" (1979); National Academy of Sciences, "Changing climate" (1983); Environmental Protection Agency, Can we delay a greenhouse warming? (1983); New York Times, "How to live in a greenhouse" (1983); R. P. Turco, O. B. Toon, T. P. Ackerman, J. B. Pollack, and Carl Sagan, "Nuclear winter" (1983); Carl Sagan, "Nuclear war and climatic catastrophe" (1983); S. Fred Singer (1985), "On a ‘Nuclear Winter’" (1983); Starley L. Thompson and Stephen H. Schneider, "Nuclear winter reappraised" (1986); James Hansen, Testimony before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, June 23, 1988; Historicizing data color plates
Part 5. Climate change governance: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, First assessment report (1990); World Commission on Environment and Development, Our common future (The Brundtland report) (1987); United Nations, Rio declaration on environment and development (1992); United Nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC) (1992); C. Boyden Gray and David B. Rivkin Jr., "A 'No regrets' environmental policy" (1991); Al Gore and Mitch McConnell, Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, September 18, 1992; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Second assessment report (1996); The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1997); The Byrd-Hagel resolution (1997)
Part 6. The past, the present, and the future: Bill McKibben, The end of nature (1989); Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer, "The anthropocene" (2000); Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, "The death of environmentalism" (2004); Nicholas Stern, "Stern review on the economics of climate change" (2006); William D. Nordhaus, "A review of the Stern review on the economics of climate change" (2007); Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (2007); Pope Francis, Si’: On care for our common home (2016).Call Number: QC981.8.G56 M34 2017eb
ISBN: 9781786845979
Publication Date: 2017
