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Making Climate Change History: Documents from Global Warming's Past
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This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and international declarations. Far more than just a compendium of source materials, the book uses these documents as a way to think about history, while at the same time using history as a way to approach the politics of climate change from a new perspective.
Making Climate Change History provides the necessary background to give readers the opportunity to pose critical questions and create plausible answers to help them understand climate change in its historical context; it also illustrates the relevance of history to building effective strategies for dealing with the climatic challenges of the future.
Table of Contents
Cover
Half-Title Page, Series Page, Title Page, Copyright
Contents
Foreword: Climate Change and the Uses of History
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making Climate Change History
Part 1. The Scientific "Prehistory" of Global Warming
General Remarks on the Temperatures of the Globe and the Planetary Spaces
The Bakerian Lecture: On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction
On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground
The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature
Part 2. The Cold War Roots of Global Warming
Carbon Dioxide Exchange between Atmosphere and Ocean and the Question of an Increase of Atmospheric CO2 during the Past Decades
Testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations, February 8, 1956
Testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations, May 1, 1957
The Impact of Weather Control on the Cold War
National Science Foundation, Preliminary Plans for a National Center for Atmospheric Research
Part 3. Making Global Warming Green
The Conservation Foundation, Implications of Rising Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere
President's Science Advisory Committee, Restoring the Quality of Our Environment
The Limits to Growth
Study of Man's Impact on Climate, Inadvertent Climate Modification
The Sierra Club, "International Committee Questionnaire--Five Year Plan"
Criteria for International Campaigns
National Climate Program Act of 1978
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Advisory Group on Climate Meeting, May 26, 1978
Action Flow, U.S. Carbon Dioxide Research and Assessment Program
Letter to David Burns
Testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, July 31, 1981
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
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate
A Perspective on Climate Change
The Genesis Strategy
Review: The Genesis Strategy--Climate and Global Survival
Forum
National Academy of Sciences, "Carbon Dioxide and Climate"
National Academy of Sciences, "Changing Climate"
Environmental Protection Agency, Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming?
New York Times, "How to Live in a Greenhouse"
Nuclear Winter
Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe
On a "Nuclear Winter"
Nuclear Winter Reappraised
Testimony before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, June 23, 1988
Historicizing Data
Part 5. Climate Change Governance
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, First Assessment Report
World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (The Brundtland Report)
United Nations, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
A 'No Regrets' Environmental Policy
Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, September 18, 1992
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Second Assessment Report
The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The Byrd-Hagel Resolution
Part 6. The Past, the Present, and the Future
The End of Nature
The Anthropocene
The Death of Environmentalism
Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency
Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home
Index
Series Page
| ISBN | 9780295741406 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9780295741383 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 1182014694 |
| Pages | 380 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2021-10-27 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | No |
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