The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition
The award-winning book is now revised and expanded.

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.

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The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition
The award-winning book is now revised and expanded.

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.

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The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition

The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Spencer R. Weart
The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition

The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Spencer R. Weart

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The award-winning book is now revised and expanded.

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674031890
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2008
Series: New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine , #13
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.12(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Spencer R. Weart is Director Emeritus of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.

Table of Contents


  • Preface


  1. How Could Climate Change?

  2. Discovering a Possibility

  3. A Delicate System

  4. A Visible Threat

  5. Public Warnings

  6. The Erratic Beast

  7. Breaking into Politics

  8. Speaking Science to Power

  9. The Work Completed...and Begun


  • Reflections

  • Milestones

  • Notes

  • Index

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