Making climate change history : primary sources from global warming's past

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Making climate change history : primary sources from global warming's past / edited by Joshua P. Howe.

Summary:

"Making Climate Change History is a short, user-friendly collection of primary sources selected from the most important--and often the most overlooked--documents in the scientific and political history of anthropogenic climate change. It provides students, teachers, researchers and interested readers with the raw materials with which to construct a narrative of climate change in the twentieth century. It also provides a framework for developing historians to learn to work with a diverse array of primary sources, including scientific articles. This reader also makes its own case for how the stakes of conversations about climate change have become increasingly clear over time in terms of causes and consequences, and argues for the relevance of history to building just, equitable and effective strategies for dealing with the climatic challenges of the future"--Provided by publisher.

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ISBN: 9780295741383
ISBN: 0295741384
ISBN: 9780295741390
ISBN: 0295741392
Physical Description: xvi, 340 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Foreword: Climate change and the uses of history / by Paul S. Sutter -- 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" (1824) / Joseph Fourier ; "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) / John Tyndall ; "On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground" (1896) / Svante Arrhenius ; "The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature" (1938) / G. S. Callendar -- 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" (1957) / Roger Revelle and Hans E. Suess ; Testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations, February 8, 1956 / Roger Revelle ; Testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations, May 1,1957 / Roger Revelle ; "The impact of weather control on the Cold War" (1958) / Howard T. Orville ; Preliminary plans for a National Center for Atmospheric Research (1959) / National Science Foundation -- Part 3. Making global warming green. Implications of rising carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere (1963) / The Conservation Foundation ; Restoring the quality of our environment (1965) / President's Science Advisory Committee ; The limits to growth (1972) / Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III ; Inadvertent climate modification (1971) / Study of Man's Impact on Climate ; "International Committee questionnaire : Five year plan" (1976) / The Sierra Club ; "Criteria for international campaigns" (1982) / Michael McCloskey ; 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" (1979) / David Slade ; Letter to David Burns (1980) / David Slade ; Testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, July 31, 1981 / Al Gore ; Testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, February 24, 1984 / Rafe Pomerance

Part 4. Climate change as controversy. "A study of climatological research as it pertains to intelligence problems" (1974) / U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ; "Atmospheric carbon dioxide and aerosols : effects of large increases on global climate" (1971) / S. I. Rasool and S. H. Schneider ; "A perspective on climate change" (1974) / Reid Bryson ; The Genesis Strategy (1976) ; "Review: The Genesis Strategy : climate and global survival" (1976) / Helmut E. Landsberg ; "Forum" (1977) / Stephen H. Schneider and Helmut E. Landsberg ; "Carbon dioxide and climate" (1979) / National Academy of Sciences ; "Changing climate" (1983) / National Academy of Sciences ; Can we delay a greenhouse warming? (1983) / Environmental Protection Agency ; "How to live in a greenhouse" (1983) / New York Times ; "Nuclear winter" (1983) / R. P. Turco, O. B. Toon, T. P. Ackerman, J. B. Pollack, and Carl Sagan ; "Nuclear war and climatic catastrophe" (1983) / Carl Sagan ; "On a' nuclear winter"' (1983) / S. Fred Singer (1985) ; "Nuclear winter reappraised" (1986) / Starley L. Thompson and Stephen H. Schneider ; Testimony before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, June 23, 1988 / James Hansen -- Part 5. Climate change governance. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, First Assessment Report (1990) ; Our common future (The Brundtland Report) (1987) / World Commission on Environment and Development ; United Nations, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992) ; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (1992) ; "A 'No regrets' environmental policy" (1991) / C. Boyden Gray and David B. Rivkin Jr. ; Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, September 18, 1992 / Al Gore and Mitch McConnell ; 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. The end of nature (1989) / Bill McKibben ; "The Anthropocene" (2000) / Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer ; "The death of environmentalism" (2004) / Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus ; "Stern review on the economics of climate change" (2006) / Nicholas Stern ; "A review of the Stern Review on the economics of climate change" (2007) / William D. Nordhaus ; Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) ; Laudato Si' : on care for our common home (2016) / Pope Francis.