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Introduction: Summary History of
Climate Change Science
History in Hypertext
BASIC DATA
The Modern Temperature
Trend
Past Cycles: Ice Age Speculations
Temperatures from Fossil Shells
Rapid Climate Change
Radiocarbon Dating
INFLUENCES ON CLIMATE
The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse
Effect
Roger Revelle's Discovery
Other Greenhouse Gases
Aerosol Hazes
Biosphere: How Life Alters
Climate
Changing Sun, Changing Climate
Ocean Currents and Climate
THEORY
Simple Models of Climate
Chaos in the Atmosphere
Venus
& Mars
General Circulation Models of
the Atmosphere
Basic
Radiation Calculations
Arakawa's
Computation Device
SOCIAL
Impacts of Global Warming
The Public and Climate
Wintry Doom
Ice
Sheets & Rising Seas
Government: The View from Washington,
DC
Climate
Modification Schemes
Money
for Keeling: Monitoring CO2 Levels
International Cooperation
Climatology
as a Profession
A Personal Note
Talking
Points
Reflections on the Scientific
Process
REFERENCE/UTILITIES
Timeline of milestones,
external influences
Bibliography by author (654 kb)
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