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The Discovery of Global Warming : Revised and Expanded Edition / Spencer R. Weart.

Weart, Spencer R., author.
2008
QC981.8.G56
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Title
The Discovery of Global Warming : Revised and Expanded Edition / Spencer R. Weart.
Author
Weart, Spencer R., author.
ISBN
9780674417557
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674417557
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (240 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674417557 doi
Call Number
QC981.8.G56
Alternate Call Number
HT 5055
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.6
Summary
In 2001 an international panel of climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last two millennia. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion was the story Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. The award-winning book is now revised and expanded to reflect the latest science. 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 two millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion-by way of unexpected twists and turns-was 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. "Charting the evolution and confirmation of the theory [of global warming], Weart dissects the interwoven threads of research and reveals the political and societal subtexts that colored scientists' views and the public reception their work ­received." -Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times Book Review
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
Series
New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
PREFACE
Chapter one. HOW COULD CLIMATE CHANGE?
Chapter two. DISCOVERING A POSSIBILITY
Chapter three. A DELICATE SYSTEM
Chapter four. A VISIBLE THREAT
Chapter five. PUBLIC WARNINGS
Chapter six. THE ERRATIC BEAST
Chapter seven. BREAKING INTO POLITICS
Chapter eight. SPEAKING SCIENCE TO POWER
Chapter nine. THE WORK COMPLETED...AND BEGUN
Reflections
Milestones
Notes
Index

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