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Author Weart, Spencer R., 1942-

Title The discovery of global warming / Spencer R. Weart.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Edition Revised and expanded edition.
Description 1 online resource (x, 230 pages).
Series New histories of science, technology, and medicine
New histories of science, technology, and medicine.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents How could climate change? -- Discovering a possibility -- A delicate system -- A visible threat -- Public warnings -- The erratic beast -- Breaking into politics -- Speaking science to power -- The work completed ... and begun.
Summary "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 ten 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."--Jacket.
Note Print version record.
Subject Global warming -- History.
Climatic changes -- History.
Climatology -- International cooperation.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
Changement climatique.
Climatologie.
Recherche scientifique.
Histoire.
Coopération scientifique.
Climatic changes. (OCoLC)fst00864229
Climatology -- International cooperation. (OCoLC)fst00864296
Global warming. (OCoLC)fst00943506
Anthropogene Klimaänderung. (DE-588)4290733-0
Erwärmung (Meteorologie) (DE-588)4344515-9
Klimatologie. (DE-588)4031178-8
Klimaänderung. (DE-588)4164199-1
Theoriebildung. (DE-588)4185105-5
Treibhauseffekt. (DE-588)4226436-4
Erwärmung (Meteorologie)
Treibhauseffekt.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Weart, Spencer R., 1942- Discovery of global warming. Revised and expanded edition 9780674031890 (DLC) 2008013675 (OCoLC)214286021
ISBN 9780674417557 (electronic bk.)
0674417550 (electronic bk.)
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