1-14: Global Warming Potential

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Human Contributions to Climate Change
  
  
• Nitrogen for Enhanced Biosphere Uptake of CO₂
  
  
• Solar Variations as a Source of Climate Change
  
  
• Failure of the US Climate Science Plan
  
  
• Soot Leads to both Warming and Cooling of Regional Climate
  
  
• Global warming is here and we need to do something about it
  
  
• Cycles and Surprises
  
  
• Kyoto Protocol Requirements
  
  
• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  
  
• Stabilization of CO₂ emissions with allowances for needs of developing countries
  
  
• Eizenstat Prepared Testimony on Kyoto Protocol
  
  
• Tax to Change Global Warming?
  
  

Websites

• Current Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Soot climate forcing via snow and ice albedos
  
  
• Slide Presentation: The Greenhouse Effect; Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions, Concentrations, and Sources; Temperature Data; and Projections of Future GHG Emissions.
  
  
• EPA Global Warming Site
  
  
• Global Warming International Center.
  
  
• Radiative Forcing
  
  
• The Cooling Factors
  
  
• Six IPCC Scenarios
  
  
• Projected changes in CO₂ and climate
  
  
• Projected changes in global temperature
  
  
• Projected changes in global sea level
  
  
• Current Acacia Projects
  
  
• 9th Global Warming International Conference & Expo (GW9)
  
  
• Climate Change Bulletin.
  
  
• Tiempo, a Cyberlibrary on Global Warming.
  
  

Additional References

• Hansen, J., and Co-authors, 2005: Earth's energy imbalance: Confirmation and implications. Science, 308, 1431-1435.
  
  
• Matthews, H.D., A.J. Weaver, and K.J. Meissner, 2005: Terrestrial carbon cycle dynamics under recent and future climate change. J. Climate, 18, 1609-1628.
  
  
• Karl, T.R., and K.E. Trenberth, 2003: Modern global climate change. Science, 302, 1719-1723.
  
  
• Caldeira, K., A. K. Jain, and M. I. Hoffert, 2003: Climate sensitivity uncertainty and the need for energy without CO2 emission. Science, 299, 2052-2054.
  
  
• O'Neill, B. C., and M. Oppenheimer, 2002: Dangerous climate impacts and the Kyoto Protocol. Science, 296, 1971-1972.
  
  
• S. H. Schneider, 2001: What is 'dangerous' climate change? Nature, 411, 17-19.
  
  
• Shindell, D.T., B. A.Schmidt, M. E. Mann, D. Rind, and A. Waple, 2001: Solar forcing of regional climate change during the Maunder Minimum. Science, 294, 21249-2152.
  
  
• Haigh, J., 2001: Climate variability and the influence of the sun. Science, 294, 2109-2111.
  
  
• Smith, S. J., T. M. L. Wigley, and J. Edmonds, 2000: A new route toward limiting climate change? Science, 290, 1109-1110.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., L. G. Meira Filho, B. A. Callander N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell, 1996: Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 21-26.