Introduction to the Goals of the Book and the IPCC Report
Part 1: Climate Change Basics
The Relative Impacts of Humans and Nature on Climate
Taking Action in the Face of Uncertainty: The Role of the Scientist in Global Change Policy Making
Why is it Called The Greenhouse Effect?
Feedback Loops Compound the Greenhouse Effect
What Are the Important Greenhouse Gases and Where Do They Come From?
Isnt Carbon Dioxide Causing the Hole in the Ozone Layer?
Greenhouse Gases on the Rise
Its Getting Hotter Down Here! Surface Temperature Observations:
Is Our Atmosphere Really Warming?
Back to the Future: Deep Time Holds Clues to Greenhouse Climates
But Werent Scientists Warning Us of an Imminent Ice Age Only Decades Ago?
How Does Modern Warming Differ from Past Warming Trends?
Signs of Things to Come: A Decade of Western North American Drought
Signs of Things to Come: The European Heat Wave of Summer 2003
A Tempest in a Greenhouse: Have Hurricanes Become More Frequent and Intense?
The Vanishing Snows of Kilimanjaro: An Icon of Climate Change?
The Day after Tomorrow: Will the Oceans Conveyor Belt Shut Down?
The Last Interglacial Period as Analogue For the Future
How to Build a Climate Model
James Hansen Biographical Sketch
Climate Models Help Us to Assess Changing Climate Trends
Regional vs. Global Trends
Fingerprints Can Distinguish Human and Natural Impacts on Climate
Part 2: Projections of Future Climate Change
How Sensitive is the Climate? Modern Observations
How Sensitive is the Climate? Evidence from Past Centuries
How Sensitive is the Climate? Evidence From Deep Time
Fossil Fuel Emission Scenarios: Predicting the Possibilities
The Next Century: How Will The Climate Change? Part 1
The Next Century: How Will the Climate Change? Part 2
The Geographical Pattern of Future Warming
Carbon Cycle Feedbacks: Natures Response to Increasing Atmospheric CO2
Coral Reefs: Will Ocean Acidification be their Demise?
Melting Ice and Rising Sea Level
Future Changes in Extreme Weather
Stabilizing Atmospheric CO2: Is a Greenhouse World a Better World?
Part 3: The Impacts of Climate Change
The Rising Impact of Global Warming
Is it Time to Sell that Beach House?
Ecosystems: Worth Saving?
The Highway to Extinction?
James Lovelock Biographical Sketch (
Water: Too Much and Too Little
Is Warming from Carbon Dioxide Leading to More Air Pollution?
War...
Famine
Pestilence and Death
Earth, Wind, and Fire: Impacts on North America
Too Wet and Too Hot: Impacts on Europe
The Polar Meltdown
Part 4: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change
Is Global Warming the Last Straw for Vulnerable Ecosystems? How Human Activity has Changed the Rules of the Game
To Adapt or To Mitigate? What is the Best Course for...