Climate Change

J. Ernest "Sunny" Breeding, Jr., PhD Geophysics

Presentations to Groups

A slide show version of these pages on climate change is available and can be presented to groups. For information please contact J. Ernest "Sunny" Breeding, Jr., 115 Blackbeard Dr., Slidell, LA 70461, phone: 985-649-0824 and Email: travel@goworldclass.com.

References

Associated Press, Science not faked, but not pretty (Article: December 12, 2009)
Broecker, Wallace S & Kunzig, Robert, Fixing Climate, Hill & Wang (2008)
Broecker, Wallace "Wally" S, The Great Ocean Conveyor, Princeton University Press (2010)
Burroughs, William James, Climate Change in Prehistory, Cambridge University Press (2005)
Burroughs, William James, Climate Change, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press (2007)
Cullen, Heidi, The Weather of the Future - Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet, HarperCollins (2010)
Fagan, Brian, The Little Ice Age - How Climate Made History 1300 - 1850, Basic Books (2000)
Fagan, Brian, The Long Summer - How Climate Changed Civilization, Basic Books (2004)
Fagan, Brian, The Great Warming - Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, Bloomsbury Press (2008)
Fagan, Brian, Floods, Famines, and Emperors - El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations, Basic Books (1999, 2009)
Fagan, Brian, Editor, The Complete Ice Age, Thames & Hudson (2009)
Hansen, James, Storms of My Grand Children, Bloomsbury USA (2009, 2011)
Henson, Robert, Climate Change, 3rd Edition, Rough Guides (2011)
Imbrie, John & Imbrie, Katherine Palmer, Ice Ages Solving the Mystery, Enslow Publishers (1979)
Mann, Michael E, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, Columbia University Press (2012)
Schmidt, Gavin & Wolfe, Joshua, Climate Change Picturing the Science, W W Norton (2009)
Weart, Spencer R, The Discovery of Global Warming, Harvard University Press (2008)

Internet Author Sources

Hansen, James, Updates on climate change: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1
Shoemaker, Lauren, Fingerprints of Emissions and the Carbon Cycle: Stable and Radiocarbon Isotopes of Carbon Dioxide, NOAA (2010: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/outreach/isotopes/
Steig, Eric, How Do We Know that Recent CO2 Increases Are Due to Human Activities?, RealClimate (2004): http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/how-do-we-know-that-recent-cosub2sub-increases-are-due-to-human-activities-updated/

Internet Organizational Sources

European Space Agency (ESA) Science & Technology: http://sci.esa.int/
Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): http://www.ipcc.ch/
IPCC 3rd Assessment Report Climate Change: http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/
IPCC 4th Assessment Report Climate Change: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/contents.html
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/
LiveScience Environmental: http://www.livescience.com/environment/
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC NOAA): http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Services: http://www.climate.gov/
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC): http://nsidc.org/index.html
RealClimate by Gavin Schmidt & others, Great climate science info: http://www.realclimate.org
United States Department of Energy (USDOE): http://fossil.energy.gov/programs/sequestration/overview.html
United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP): http://www.globalchange.gov/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: http://www.whoi.edu/
World Ocean Thermohaline Circulation: http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/world-ocean-thermohaline-circulation
Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre: http://www.beringia.com/climate/

Pages

Page 1: Climate Change and Definition
Page 2: Evidence of Global Warming
Page 3: Measurements
Page 4: Ice Ages
Page 5: Causes of Climate Change
Page 6: Predicting the Future
Page 7: How Can We Fix Our Climate?
Page 8: References