| A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand the problem of climate change. This Website created by Spencer Weart supplements his much shorter book, which tells the history of climate change research as a single story. On this Website you will find a more complete history in dozens of essays on separate topics, updated annually If you want basic facts about climate change, or detailed current technical information, you might do better using the links page. But if you want to use history to really understand it all... |
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- A GOOD PLACE TO START is the Summary of the history of climate change science.
- You can select topics from the Table of Contents (site map).
- For a scholarly preface, see Methodology and Sources.
- You can print out individual essays using PDF files. These are the April 2024 versions and may not include more recent updates.
- Or Search
the entire text.
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Basic navigation: On the right of each essay are links to essays about other topics. Follow forward an arrow to see how the events that you are reading about gave something => TO the other topic. Follow back an arrow to track influence <= FROM the other topic. Double arrow <=> shows MUTUAL interaction. Click on a numbered note, e.g., (12) for references. Notes with asterisk (12*) give a bit of additional text. In a note, click on a reference to find it in the bibliography; use your browser's BACK button to return. About this site: top of page | |
Contents/Site Map April 2025 version |
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This is mounted on the Website of the Center
for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.
Discovery of Global Warming site created by Spencer
Weart with initial support from the American Institute of Physics, the
National Science Foundation and the Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation. The statements on this site represent
the views of the author and are not positions endorsed by the
American Institute of Physics. Two of the Institute's Member Societies
have taken positions on climate change; see the
American Physical Society's statement and the American Meteorological Society's statement, also the American
Geophysical Union's statement.
Copyright
© 2003-2025 Spencer Weart and the American Institute of Physics.
Book cover
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