1.6: Supplementary Readings and Sources
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Check out the following resources for more information and discussion topics:
National Academy of Sciences. Climate Change: Evidence and Causes. http:// dels.nas.edu/resources/static-assets/exec-office-other/climate-change-full. pdf.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Change 2013. The Physical Science Basis: Frequently Asked Questions. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/ wg1/.
For more comprehensive and detailed scientific reports, see these sources:
US Global Change Research Program. 2017. Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I [Wuebbles, D. J., et al. (eds.)]. USGCRP, Washington, DC. https://science2017.globalchange.gov.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. http://www.ipcc.ch.
Sources for the Figures
Section 1.1 icon: Image from Pixabay. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/ uploads/2018/02/SPM.1_rev1-01.png.
Box 1.1 figure: Image from IPCC. 2014. Figure SPM.1(c). https://www.ipcc.ch/ pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf.
Figure 1.1.1: V. Ramanathan. Bending the Curve: Lecture 1, Module 1. Anthropocene and Planetary Stewardship.
Figure 1.1.2: Steffen, W., et al. 2015. The trajectory of the Anthropocene: the great acceleration. The Anthropocene Review 2(1), 81–98. https://doi. org/10.1177/2053019614564785.
Figure 1.2.1: Ramanathan, V. Bending the Curve: Lecture 1, Module 2. Icons designed by Freepik from http://www.flaticon.com/packs/ ecology-enviroment-2.
Figure 1.2.2: Earth image from Apollo 16 in 1972. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ imgcat/html/object_page/a16_h_118_18873.html.
Figure 1.2.3: Photograph by Matthew Henry on Unsplash.
Figure 1.2.4: All images from NASA. Venus image: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ image/planetary/venus/pvo_uv_790205.jpg. Earth image: https://www. nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-captures-epic-earth-image. Mars image: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=5473.
Figure 1.2.5: Image from NOAA. https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/ earth-our-goldilocks-planet/.
Figure 1.2.6: Image from the Scripps CO2 Program from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. http://scrippsCO2.ucsd.edu/graphics_gallery/ mauna_loa_and_south_pole/mauna_loa_and_south_pole.
Figure 1.2.7: Climate in Peril: A Popular Guide to the Latest IPCC Reports. UNEP/ GRID-Arendal. Page 18. https://www.uncclearn.org/sites/default/files/ inventory/unep125.pdf.
Figure 1.3.1: Top left photograph by Alan Kiniry, reproduced from https:// www.pexels.com/. Top right image reproduced from https://pixabay. com/. Bottom left photograph by V. Ramanathan. Bottom right image reproduced from https://pixabay.com/.
Figure 1.3.2: Repurposed image obtained from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ global-temperature/.
Figure 1.3.3: Image from IPCC. 2013. Figure SPM.6. Page 18. https://www.ipcc. ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_all_final.pdf.
Figure 1.4.1: Variations in the Earth’s surface temperature: year 1000 to 2100. UNEP/GRID-Arendal, Vital Climate Graphics update, 2005. Page 26. https://www.uncclearn.org/sites/defa...ry/unep125.pdf.
Figure 1.4.2: Cook, B. I., et al. 2015. Global Warming and 21st Century Drying. Drought Index for 2080–2099: NOAA-Princeton Univ Model Study. https:// www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~bc9z/cook_pdsi_clidyn_REV_v01.pdf.
Sources for the Text
1.1 Entering the Age of Humans
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Crutzen, P. J., and Stoermer, E. F. 2000. The Anthropocene. Global Change Newsletter 41, 17–18.
IPCC. 2013. Summary for policymakers. In Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group 1 to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T. F., et al. (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. https:// www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2017/09/WG1AR5_Frontmatter_FINAL. pdf.
Knox, E. G. 2008. Atmospheric pollutants and mortalities in English local authority areas. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (1979–) 62(5), 442–447. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40665746.
Ramanathan, V., and Xu, Y. 2017. Well below 2°C: mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 114(39), 10315–10323. https://doi. org/10.1073/pnas.1618481114.
Steffen, W., et al. 2011. The Anthropocene: from global change to planetary stewardship. Ambio 40(7), 739–761. http://doi.org/10.1007/ s13280-011-0185-x.
1.2 The Atmospheric Blanket and Its Warming
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1.3 Why and How Is Climate Changing?
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IPCC. 2014. Summary for policymakers. In Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Pachauri, R. K., and Meyer, L. A. (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/.
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1.4 Impacts of Climate Change
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