The Discovery of Global Warming

The Discovery of Global Warming July 2009

A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to cause 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, occasionally updated. 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… Second edition, revised and updated (2008) A GOOD PLACE TO START is the Summary of the history of climate change science. For a scholarly preface, look at Methodology and Sources. If you are somewhat familiar with the subject, you could select topics from the Table of Contents (site map). You can download this site (Zip file) and put in on your own hard drive or burn a CD/DVD, or print out individual essays using PDF files. These files are for the July 2009 version and will not include more recent updates. You can Search the entire text. 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. Some notes, indicated thus: (12*) have additional text. In the note, click on a reference to reach the bibliography—use your browser’s BACK button to return. About this site: top of page Contents/Site Map July 2009 version Introduction and Summary of the history SEARCH all the essays

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