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One of the greatest powers of the Internet is that it opens vast vistas of knowledge to everyone. We see this at work in the climate science debate where any moderately educated person has access to resources sufficient to follow the debate (if not to contribute).

On the right-side menu bar are the FM reference pages. These are not just archives of the articles on this site, but also list the links I have used to write them. There are four reference pages about science and nature (focused on climate sciences).

This post pulls information from all four of these pages, giving you a tasty sliver of the whole.

Contents

Basic reference sources FM posts about shockwaves and other geo-science related issues Some articles from the past worrying about climate change One aspect of the problem you might not have heard about — the sun’s influence on our climate Afterword

(1) Basic reference sources – a place to start

(a) The #1 site IMO: The Discovery of Global Warming, on the site of the American Institute of Physics — “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, updated annually.

(b) Lists of articles with full citations:

A timelineof the science and politics of climate science (from the AIP site)

A Bibliography by year of climate science research (also from AIP)

(c) Other relevant and useful articles

A classic, also relevant to climate science today: “A meeting with Enrico Fermi“, Nature (22 January 2004) – “How one intuitive physicist rescued a team from fruitless research.” “A Critical Examination of Climate Change“, Douglas Hoyt and Warwick Hughes, posted at Hughes’ site, no date — An introductory briefing. “Nuclear winter: science and politics“, Brian Martin, Science and Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 5, October 1988, pp. 321-334 — Excellent background description and bibliography. Vital background to understand the global warning debate. “Aliens cause global warming”, Michael Crichton, lecture at the California Institute of Technology, 17 January 2003

(2) FM posts about shockwaves and other geo-science related issues

(3) Some articles from the past worrying about climate change

These are just of the few from the FM reference page Science & Nature – the history of climate fears, selected because the actual text is online and free.

(4) One aspect of the problem you might not have heard about — the sun’s influence on our climate

Afterword

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