The discovery of global warming / Spencer R. Weart.
By: Weart, Spencer R
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TextSeries: New histories of science, technology, and medicine: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: x, 230 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780674031890 (pbk. : alk. paper); 067403189X (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Global warming -- History | Climatic changes -- History | Climatology -- International cooperationDDC classification: 551.6 Online resources: Table of contents | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 551.6 W376 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003745676 |
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| 551.6 P314 With speed and violence : why scientists fear tipping points in climate change / | 551.6 Sch53 2009 Climate change : picturing the science / | 551.6 Su21 2008 Sudden and disruptive climate change : exploring the real risks and how we can avoid them / | 551.6 W376 2008 The discovery of global warming / | 551.60973 M542 2008 Weather matters : an American cultural history since 1900 / | 551.63 C897 2010 The weather of the future : heat waves, extreme storms, and other scenes from a climate-changed planet / | 551.68 H180 2013 Earthmasters : the dawn of the age of climate engineering / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How could climate change? -- Discovering a possibility -- A delicate system -- A visible threat -- Public warnings -- The erratic beast -- Breaking into politics -- Speaking science to power -- The work completed .o.o. and begun.
"In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion.
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