Key Articles
Frequently cited, these articles help provide a framework for understanding issues of global warming and point to topics within the subject of interest to researchers.
Clarke, Garry, David Leverington, and James Teller. “Superlakes, Megafloods, and Abrupt Climate Change.” Science 301 (Aug. 15, 2003): 922–23.
Cook, Edward R., Connie A. Woodhouse, and C. Mark Eakin. “Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States.” Science 306 (Nov. 5, 2004): 1015–18.
Cox, Peter M., Richard A. Betts, and Chris D. Jones. “Acceleration of Global Warming due to Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks in a Coupled Climate Model.” Nature 408, no. 6809 (Nov. 9, 2000): 184–87.
Curran, Mark A. J., Tas D. Van Ommen, and Vin I. Morgan. “Ice Core Evidence for Antarctic Sea Ice Decline since the 1950s.” Science 302 (Nov. 14, 2003): 1203–6.
Dickens, Gerald R. “Hydrocarbon-Driven Warming.” Nature 429 (June 3, 2004): 513–15.
Emanuel, Kerry. “Increasing Destructiveness of Tropical Cyclones over the Past 30 Years.” Nature 436 (Aug. 4, 2005): 686–88.
Feely, Richard A., Christopher L. Sabine, and Kitack Lee. “Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 System in the Oceans.” Science 305 (July 16, 2004): 362–66.
Fyfe, John C. “Extratropical Southern Hemisphere Cyclones: Harbingers of Climate Change?” Journal of Climate 16, no. 17 (Sept. 1, 2003): 2802–5.
Hansen, James, Makiko Sato, and Reto Ruedy. “Global Temperature Change.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103, no. 39 (Sept. 26, 2006): 14288–93.
Hughes, T. P., A. H. Baird, and D. R. Bellwood. “Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs.” Science 301 (Aug. 15, 2003): 929–33.
Kump, Lee R. “Reducing Uncertainty about Carbon Dioxide as a Climate Driver.” Nature 419, no. 6903 (Sept. 12, 2002): 188–90.
Levitus, Sydney, John I. Antonov, and Julian Wang. “Anthropogenic Warming of Earth’s Climate System.” Science 292, no. 5515 (Apr. 13, 2001): 267–70.
Pacala, Stephen and Robert Socolow. “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies.” Science 305 (Aug. 13, 2004): 968–72.
Parmesan, Camille and Gary Yohe. “A Globally Coherent Fingerprint of Climate Change Impacts across Natural Systems.” Nature 421 (Jan. 2, 2003): 37–42.
Pounds, J. Alan. “Climate and Amphibian Declines.” Nature 410, no. 6829 (Apr. 5, 2001): 639–40.
Ruddiman, William F. “How did Humans First Alter Global Climate?” Scientific American 292, no. 3 (Mar. 2005): 46–53.
Sabine, Christopher L., Richard A. Feely, and Nicolas Gruber. “The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO2.” Science 305 (July 16, 2004): 367–71.
Schar, Christoph, Pier Luigi Vidale, and Daniel Luthi. “The Role of Increasing Temperature Variability in European Summer Heatwaves.” Nature 427 (Jan. 22, 2004): 332–36.
Schmittner, Andreas. “Decline of the Marine Ecosystem Caused by a Reduction in the Atlantic Overturning Circulation.” Nature 434 (Mar. 31, 2005): 628–33.
Stainforth, D. A., T. Aina, and C. Christensen. “Uncertainty in Predictions of the Climate Response to Rising Levels of Greenhouse Gases.” Nature 433 (Jan. 27, 2005): 403–6.
Thomas, Chris D., Alison Cameron, and Rhys E. Green. “Extinction Risk from Climate Change.” Nature 427 (Jan. 8, 2004): 145–48.
Websites
IPCC—World Meteorological Organization and United Nations Environment Program. “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” Provides scientific information about climate change to guide United Nations policy makers. The website offers many high-profile technical reports free in PDF format.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “MIT Center for Global Change Science.” The MIT Center for Global Change Science is an interdisciplinary academic research center associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Technical reports on various aspects of climate change are available.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “National Climatic Data Center.” This site, part of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), offers for sale officially certified climate data and related products.
Pew Center on Global Climate Change. “Pew Center on Global Climate Change.” The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is a nonprofit, independent organization devoted to providing the public with information and policy solutions for global climate change. The website offers news briefs, fact sheets, summaries of climate change actions by government and business, and even a kids’ page.
RealClimate. “Real Climate: Climate Science from Climate Scientists.” This is a good place to find out what the latest controversy in climate science is and what scientists are saying about it. This site received the 2005 Science and Technology Web Award from Scientific American.
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Denise A. Brush is Science & Engineering Librarian, Rowan University Library Services, Glassboro, New Jersey.
References
- Walter Gibbs and Sarah Lyall, “Gore Shares Peace Prize for Climate Change Work,” New York Times, Oct. 13, 2007, A1, ProQuest (accessed March 17, 2008).
- James Kanter and Andrew C. Revkin, “Scientists Detail Climate Changes, Poles to Tropics,” New York Times, Apr. 7, 2007, A1, ProQuest (accessed Mar. 17, 2008).
- Gregg Easterbrook, “Finally Feeling the Heat,” New York Times, May 24, 2006, A27, ProQuest (accessed Mar. 17, 2008).