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Informationen zum Autor Joshua P. Howe is assistant professor of history and environmental studies at Reed College. He is the author of Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming . Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Climate Change and the Uses of History / Paul S. Sutter Acknowledgments Introduction Making Climate Change History Part One The Scientific "Prehistory" of Global Warming 1. Joseph Fourier, "General Remarks on the Temperatures of the Globe and the Planetary Spaces" (1824) 2. John Tyndall, "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) 3. Svante Arrhenius, "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground" (1896) 4. G. S. Callendar, "The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature" (1938) Part Two The Cold War Roots of Global Warming 5. Roger Revelle and Hans E. Suess, "Carbon Dioxide Exchange between Atmosphere and Ocean and the Question of an Increase of Atmospheric CO2 during the Past Decades" (1957) 6. Roger Revelle, Testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations, February 8, 1956 7. Roger Revelle, Testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations, May 1, 1957 8. Howard T. Orville, "The Impact of Weather Control on the Cold War" (1958) 9. National Science Foundation, Preliminary Plans for a National Center for Atmospheric Research (1959) Part Three Making Global Warming Green 10. The Conservation Foundation, Implications of Rising Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere (1963) 11. President's Science Advisory Committee, Restoring the Quality of Our Environment (1965) 12. Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III, The Limits to Growth (1972) 13. Study of Man's Impact on Climate, Inadvertent Climate Modification (1971) 14. The Sierra Club, "International Committee Questionnaire-Five Year Plan" (1976) 15. Michael McCloskey, "Criteria for International Campaigns" (1982) 16. National Climate Program Act of 1978 17. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Advisory Group on Climate Meeting, May 26, 1978 18. David Slade, "Action Flow, U.S. Carbon Dioxide Research and Assessment Program" (1979) 19. David Slade, Letter to David Burns (1980) 20. Al Gore, Testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, July 31, 1981 21. Rafe Pomerance, testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, February 24, 1984 Part Four Climate Change As Controversy 22. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, "A Study of Climatological Research as It Pertains to Intelligence Problems" (1974) 23. S. I. Rasool and S. H. Schneider, "Atmospher...
