About the Book

The goal of Climate Change: In Context is to help high-school and early college-age students understand the essential facts and deeper cultural connections of topics and issues related to the scientific study of climate change and its impacts on humanity.

The relationship of science to complex ethical and social cosiderations is evident, for example, when considering the political and economic impacts of climate change related to human activity.  The data clearly and strongly convince the vast majority of scientists that unnatural global climage change is happening and that it is almost certain that it is due to anthropogenic activity (caused by humans).  This book reflects that scientific consensus and expands the discussion from the question of whether climate change is real to the question of what should be done about it.

In an attempt to enrich the reader's understanding of the mutually impacting relationship between science and culture, as space allows we have included primary sources that enhance the content of In Context entries.  In keeping with the philosophy that much of the benefit from usisng primary sources derives from the reader's own process of inquiry, the contextual material introducing each primary source provides an ouobtrusive introducton and springboard to critical thought.

Contents:

Volume 1

Abrupt Climate Change

Acid Rain

Aaptation

Aerosols

Africa: Climate Change Impacts

Agriculture: Contribution to Climate Change

Agriculture: Vulnerability to Climate Change

Albedo

Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

Annex I Partics

Antarctica: Melting

Antarctica: Observed Climate Changes

Antarctica: Role in Global Climate

Anthropogenic Change

Arctic Melting: Greenland Ice Cap

Arctic Melting: Polar Ice Cap

Arctic People: Climate Change Impacts

Asia: Climate Change Impacts

Atmospheric Chemistry

Atmospheric Criculation

Atmospheric Pollution

Atmospheric Structure

Australia: Climate Change Impacts

Automobile Emissions

Aviation Emissions and Contrails

Bali Conference

baseline Emissions 

Beach and Shoreline

Berlin Mandate

Biodiversity

Biofuel Impacts

Biogeochemical Cycle

Biomass

Biosphere

Blizzards

Bonn Conference (2001)

Carbon Credits

Carbon Cycle

Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

Carbon Dioxide Concentrations

Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CDE)

Carbon Footprint

Carbon Sequestration Issues

Carbon Sinks

Carbon Tax

Catastrophism

Cement Industry

Chaos Theory and Meteorological Predictions

China: Climate and Energy Policies

China: Total Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Chlorofluorocarbons and Related Compounds

Clean Development Mechanism

Climate Chanve

Climate Change Science Program

Climate Change Skeptics

Climate Emgineering

Climate Lag

Clouds and Reflectance

Coal

Coastal Populations

Coastlines, Changing

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

Continental Drift

Coral Reefs and Corals

Cosmic Rays

Cow Power

Cryosphere

Cultural Impacts: Venice in Peril, a Case Study

Dams

Delhi Declaration

Desert and Desertification

Drought

Dust Storms

Earthquakes

Economic of Climate Change

Economics in Transition

El Nino and La Nina

Electromagnetic Spectrum

Emissions Trading

Endangered Species

Energy Contributions

Energy Efficiency

Energy Industry Activism

Enhanced Greenhouse Effect

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

Environmental Policy

Environmental Pollution 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Environmental Protests

Erosion

Ethanol

Europe: Climate Change Impacts

Europe: ClimatePolicy

Extinction

Extraterrestrial Climate Change

Extreme Weather

Feedback Factors

Fisheries

Floods

Fog

Forests and Deforestation

Gaia

General Circulation Model (GCM)

Geologic Time Scale

Geothermal Energy

GIS and Climate Change Mapping

Glaciation

Glacier

Glacier Retreat

Global Change Research Program

Global Dimming

Global Warming

Great Barrier Reef

Great Conveyor Belt

Great Lakes

Green Movement

Greenhouse Ameliorators

Greenhouse Effect

Greenhouse Gases

Greenland: Global Implications of Accelerated Melting

Ground Data and Satellite Data Discrepancy

Gulf of Maxico

Gulf Stream

Volume 2

Halocarbons

Halogen

Halogenated Fluorocarbons

Heat Waves

Heinrich Events

Historic Preservation (World Heritage Sites)

Hockey Stick Controversy

Human Evolution

Hurricanes

Hydrocarbons

Hydrofluorocarbons

Hydrogen Economy

Hydrologic Cycle

Hydrothermal Processes

Ice Ages

Ice Core Research

Icebergs

Industry (Private Action and Initiatives)

Infectious Discease and Climate Change

Insolation

Insurance

Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

IPCC Climate Chage 2007 Report

IPCC Climate Change 2007 Report: Criticism

IPCC Climate Change 2007 Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

IPCC Climate Change 2007 Report: Mitigation of Climate Change

IPCC Climate Change 2007 Report: Physical Science Basis

Iron Fertilization 

Jet Stream

Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development

Keeling Curve

Kyoto Protocol

Lake Effect Snows

Lakes

Lifestyle Changes

Media Influences: An Inconvenient Truth

Media Influences: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail  or Succeed

Media Influence: False Balance

Media Influence: Ice Age Predictions

Media Influence: Live Earth

Media Influence: The End of Nature

Medieval Warm Epoch

Melting 

Meteorology

Methane

Milankovitch Cycles

Millennial Climate Oscillations

Mitigation Strategies

Montreal Protocol

National Security

Natural Gas

Nitrous Oxide (N2O)

North America: Climate Change Impacts

Nuclear Power

Nuclear Winter

Ocean Circulation and Currents

Oceans and Seas

Offsetting

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Oscillation

Ozone (O3)

Ozone Depletion

Paleoclimatology

Peak Oil

Perfluorinated Carbons (PFCs)

Permafrost

Petroleum

Petroleum: Economic Uses and Dependency

Phenology

Polar Bears

Polar Ice

Polar Regions: Climate Change Impacts

Polar Wander

Public Opinion

Rainfall

Red Tide

Refugees and Displacement

Renewability

Renewable Energy

Respiratory Disease

Rivers

Saltwater Encroachment

Satellite Measurements

Sea Level Rise

Sea Temperatures and Storm Intensity

Seasonal Winds

Seawalls and Beach Erosion

Sequestration

Simulations

Sink

Small Islands: Climate Change Impacts

Snowball Earth

Social Cost of Carbon (SCC)

Solar Energy

Solar Illumination

Solar Radiation

Soot

South America: Climate Chage Impacts

Stern Review

Sulfate Aerosol

Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)

Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6)

Sustainability

Sustainable Energy Policy Network

Temperature and Temperature Scales

Temperature Record

Terra Satellite and Earth Observing System (EOS)

Terraforming

Tides

Tornadoes

Tourism and Recreation

Trace Gas

Tropical Cyclone

Tundra

Uniformitarianism

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

United States: Climate Policy

United States: State and Local Greenhouse Politices

Urban Heat Islands

Volcanism

Waste Disposal

Wastewater Treatment

Water Shortages

Water Vapor

Wetlands

Wildfires

Wing Power

World Meteorological Organization  (WMO)

World Meteorological Organization 9WHO)