3-14: Legislation and Policy

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Corporations Turn Green in Anticipation of Government Regulation
  
  
• Climate Change Emigrants
  
  
• Scientific Consensus on Climate Change? Overwhelming.
  
  
• Are Humans Causing Climate Change?
  
  
• A New Political Approach to Climate Change is Needed in the US
  
  
• Russia May Not Gain from the Kyoto Protocol
  
  
• Climate Change (PDF file)
  
  
• Threat due to Climate Change Judged Greater than the Threat of Terrorism
  
  
• Update on Ocean Fertilization to Absorb CO₂
  
  
• Abrupt Climate Change - Present and Future
  
  
• Failure of the US Climate Science Plan
  
  
• Progress on Limiting Greenhouse Gases by Developing Nations
  
  
• Regulation of development and deforestation in Amazonia
  
  
• Global warming is here and we need to do something about it / En Español
  
  
• Engineering Solution to Reducing atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Raises Serious Environmental Problems
  
  
• Burying CO₂ in the deep ocean
  
  
• Climate Change Policy
  
  
• The hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico
  
  
• Matters of Scale: Arteriosclerosis of the Earth.
  
  
• Kyoto Protocol Requirements
  
  

Websites

• Assessing the Costs of Compliance: The Kyoto Protocol (PDF file)
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Global Climate Change Briefing Book
  
  
• UCAR response to request for input on McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act
  
  
• Johannesburg Summit
  
  
• Structure of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Changing Climate May Hurt Less Developed Countries, Help Developed Ones
  
  
• Framework Convention on Climate Change, Berlin, April 1995.
  
  
• Policies, Programs, and Opportunities for Your Involvement.
  
  
• US National Assessment: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change.
  
  
• Kyoto Protocol
  
  
• Global Climate Change Issues Forum
  
  
• EPA's CBEP homepage
  
  
• Website of the Iowa Division, United Nations Association-USA
  
  

Additional References

• Kintisch, E., 2006: Evangelicals, scientists reach common ground on climate change. Science, 311, 1082-1083.
  
  
• Schiermeier, Q., 2005: The chaos to come. Nature, 438, 903-906.
  
  
• Cherry. M., 2005: Ministers agree to action warnings of soaring temperatures in Africa. Nature, 437, 1217.
  
  
• Whitlock, C., 2004: Forests, fires and climate. Nature, 432, 28-29.
  
  
• Yohe, G., N. Andronova, and M. Schlesinger, 2004: To hedge or not against an uncertain climate future? Science, 306, 416-417.
  
  
• Pokrovsky, V. and A. Alakhverdov, 2004: Russia prepares to ratify Kyoto. Science, 304, 1225.
  
  
• Baumert, K.A., J.F. Perkaus, and N. Kete, 2003: Great expectations: Can international emissions trading deliver and equitable climate regime? Climate Policy, 3, 137-148.
  
  
• Baranzini, A., M. Chesney, and J. Morisset, 2003: The impact of possible climate catastrophes on global warming policy. Energy Policy, 31, 691-701.
  
  
• Bronstert, A., 2003: Floods and climate change: Interactions and impacts. Risk Analysis, 23, 545-557.
  
  
• Pacala, W. W., E. Bulte, J. A. List, and S. A. Levin, 2003: False alarm over environmental false alarms. Science, 301, 1187-1188.
  
  
• Korner, C., 2003: Slow in, rapid out - carbon flux studies and Kyoto targets. Science, 300, 1242-1243.
  
  
• Caldeira, K., A. K. Jain, and M. I. Hoffert, 2003: Climate sensitivity uncertainty and the need for energy without CO2 emission. Science, 299, 2052-2054.
  
  
• McDowell, N., 2002: Developing countries to gain from carbon-trading fund. Nature, 420, 4.
  
  
• Schnur, R., 2002: The investment forecast. Nature, 415, 483-485.
  
  
• O'Neill, B. C., and M. Oppenheimer, 2002: Dangerous climate impacts and the Kyoto Protocol. Science, 296, 1971-1972.
  
  
• Goldemberg, J. , ed., 2001: World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability. UNDP, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the World Energy Council. New York. 528pp
  
  
• Miller, Clark A., and Paul N. Edwards, eds, 2001: Changing the Atmosphere. Expert knowledge and Environmental Governance. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 397 pp.
  
  
• Johnson, N., C. Revenga, and J. Echeverria, 2001: Managing water for people and nature. Science, 292, 1071-1072.
  
  
• De Leo, G. A., L. Rizzi, A. Caizzi, and M. Gatto, 2001: The Economic Benefits of the Kyoto Protocol. Nature, 413, 478-479
  
  
• Schrope, M., 2001: Global Warming: a change of climate for big oil. Nature, 411, 516-518.
  
  
• S. H. Schneider, 2001: What is 'dangerous' climate change? Nature, 411, 17-19.
  
  
• Kerr, R. A., 2000: Can the Kyoto climate treaty be saved from itself? Science, 290, 920-921.
  
  
• Lubchenco, Jane, 1998: Entering the century of the environment: A new social contract for science. Science, 279, 491-497.
  
  
• Romm, J., M. Levine, M. Brown, and E. Petersen, 1998: A road map for US carbon reductions. Science, 279, 669-670.
  
  
• Arrow, K., et al, 1995: Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment. Science, 268, 520-521.
  
  
• Myers, Norman, 1995: Environmental Unknowns. Science, 269, 358-360.
  
  
• Morrisette, Peter M., 1989: The Evolution of Policy Responses to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion. Natural Resources Journal, 29, 783-820.
  
  
• Alternative Views on the Reality of Global Warming are given in Science's Compass: Science, 292, 1063-1066