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About this book
The award-winning book is now revised and expanded.
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 conclusionāby way of unexpected twists and turnsāwas the story Spencer Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. Now he brings his award-winning account up to date, revised throughout to reflect the latest science and with a new conclusion that shows how the scientific consensus caught fire among the general world public, and how a new understanding of the human meaning of climate change spurred individuals and governments to action.
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Figure
1.
the
rise
of
carbon
dioxide
in
the
atmosphere.
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A
rising
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of
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the
atmosphere
was
ļ¬rst
demonstrated
in
1960
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visible
after
only
two
years
of
measurements.
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D.
Keeling,
Tellus
12
[1960]:
200,
reproduced
by
permission.)
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of
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measured
at
Mauna
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Hawaii,
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ing
summer
growth
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release
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in
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decay.
(Scripps
Institution
of
Ocean-
ography,
reproduced
by
permission.)
Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. How Could Climate Change?
- 2. Discovering a Possibility
- 3. A Delicate System
- 4. A Visible Threat
- 5. Public Warnings
- 6. The Erratic Beast
- 7. Breaking into Politics
- 8. Speaking Science to Power
- 9. The Work Completed . . . and Begun
- Reflections
- Milestones
- Notes
- Index