General
* IPCC
Third Assessment Report (2001)
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Climate change on Wikipedia (especially good figures e.g.
Climate Change attribution)
* Global Climate Change
Student Guide from
ARIC (
pdf)
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Royal Society - A guide to facts and fictions about climate change. Prepared by a group led by Sir David Wallace FRS, Treasurer of the Royal Society, and Sir John Houghton FRS, former chair of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and endorsed by the Council of the Royal Society. It addresses the popular skeptics' arguments and the value of the Kyoto Protocol as a first step.
"Dangerous" climate change
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Stabilising climate to avoid dangerous climate change (2005) from the
Hadley Centre: "dangerous" climate change in terms of abrupt (i.e. tipping points: gulf stream, terrestrial carbon sink, greenland ice sheet and methane hydrates (good summaries)) and gradual change; relation between CO2 concentrations and temperature; emissions scenarios and CO2 levels. (NB the model-based projections for the greenland ice-sheet on time-scales of 1000s yr are disputed by Hansen (below), who claims that real-world data show much faster response times).
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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (2005) from the Exeter conference of the same name (see
this guardian story)
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James Hansen's presentation
Is There Still Time to Avoid "Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference" with Global Climate? (2005) given at the AGU on Dec 6th. (An interesting quote: "Humans now control climate, for better or for worse" (p.6))
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Can 2°C warming be avoided? (2006) article on Realclimate, based partly on the Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change report.
Atmospheric CO2
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Atmospheric CO2 Records from
Online Trends by
CDIAC (Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Centre): range of historical (ice core) and contemporary CO2 records.
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CO2 record from Mauna Loa (1958-present) (
data)
