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1-1: Overview of Global Change

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• "Can we defuse the global warming time bomb?", Presentation of James E. Hansen to the Council on Environmental Quality, 12 June 2003.
  
  
• Human Contributions to Climate Change
  
  
• Increased CO₂ and Increased Temperature: Which Came First?
  
  
• Peterson, A., 2001: Night lights. American Scientist, 89, 24-25.
  
  

Websites

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Ecological Footprint.
  
  
• The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP).
  
  
• Global Change Course Earthreview - Links on the current state of the planet.
  
  
• Global Warming Glossary from the EPA
  
  
• Global Climate Change Acronyms and Glossaries
  
  
• Global Change Scholarships and Fellowships
  
  
• Global Warming and Climate Change Brochure. From the U.S. Global Change Research Information Office.
  
  
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Homepage
  
  

Additional References

• Karl, T.R., and K.E. Trenberth, 2003: Modern global climate change. Science, 302, 1719-1723.
  
  
• Lubchenco, Jane, 1998: Entering the century of the environment: A new social contract for science. Science, 279, 491-497.
  
  
• Watson, R.T., M. C. Zinyowera, and R. H. Moss, 1996: Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change, (IPCC Working Group I Report). Cambridge University Press.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., L. G. Meira Filho, B. A. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell, 1996: Climate Change 1995. The Science of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 55-57.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T. et al., eds., 1996: Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change, (IPCC Working Group I Report). Cambridge University Press.
  
  
• Bruce, J., H. Lee, and E. Haites, 1996: Climate Change 1995: Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change, (IPCC Working Group I Report). Cambridge University Press.
  
  
• Bloom, David E., 1995: International Public Opinion on The Environment. Science, 269, 354-358.