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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Weart, Spencer R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

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

Table of Contents

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