Making Climate Change History: Documents from Global Warming's Past (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics)

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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. Cover Contents Foreword: Climate Change and the Uses of History Acknowledgments 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) “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) “On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground” (1896) “The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature” (1938) PART 2 THE COLD WAR ROOTS OF GLOBAL WARMING “Carbon Dioxide Exchange between Atmosphere and Ocean and the Question of an Increase of Atmospheric CO[sub(2)] during the Past Decades” (1957) Testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations, February 8, 1956 Testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations, May 1, 1957 “The Impact of Weather Control on the Cold War” (1958) National Science Foundation, Preliminary Plans for a National Center for Atmospheric Research (1959) PART 3 MAKING GLOBAL WARMING GREEN The Conservation Foundation, Implications of Rising Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere (1963) President’s Science Advisory Committee, Restoring the Quality of Our Environment (1965) The Limits to Growth (1972) Study of Man’s Impact on Climate, Inadvertent Climate Modification (1971) The Sierra Club, “International Committee Questionnaire—Five Year Plan” (1976) “Criteria for International Campaigns” (1982) 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) Letter to David Burns (1980) Testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, July 31, 1981 Testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, February 24, 1984 PART 4 CLIMATE CHANGE AS CONTROVERSY U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, “A Study of Climatological Research as It Pertains to Intelligence Problems” (1974) “Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate” (1971) “A Perspective on Climate Change” (1974) The Genesis Strategy (1976) “Review: The Genesis Strategy—Climate and Global Survival” (1976) “Forum” (1977) National Academy of Sciences, “Carbon Dioxide and Climate” (1979) National Academy of Sciences, “Changing Climate” (1983) Environmental Protection Agency, Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming? (1983) New York Times, “How to Live in a Greenhouse” (1983) “Nuclear Winter” (1983) “Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe” (1983) “On a ‘Nuclear Winter’” (1983) “Nuclear Winter Reappraised” (1986) Testimony before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, June 23, 1988 PART 5 CLIMATE CHANGE GOVERNANCE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, First Assessment Report (1990) World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (The Brundtland Report) (1987) United Nations, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (1992) “A ‘No Regrets’ Environmental Policy” (1991) Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, September 18, 1992 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) “The Anthropocene” (2000) “The Death of Environmentalism” (2004) “Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change” (2006) “A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change” (2007) Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2016) Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Historicizing Data color plates