Contents
Preface
I.
Science and Skepticism: Climate Change and the Greenhouse Effect
Editor’s Introduction
1) Heat: How
We Got Here. Ian Sample. The Guardian (London)
2) The Proof
Is in the Science. Roger Di Silvestro. National Wildlife
3) Strange
Science. Thomas Sieger Derr. First Things
4)
Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias. Jules Boykoff and Maxwell
Boykoff. Extra!
5) The New
Extreme Sport. William Burroughs. The Guardian (London)
6) Climate
Change: Errors in Temperature Data Mask Evidence of Warming—Studies.
Greenwire
II.
Vanishing Glaciers, Rising Tides: Global Warming’s Toll Thus
Far
Editor’s Introduction
1) As the
Arctic Melts, an Ancient Culture Faces Ruin. Charles Wohlforth.
National Wildlife
2) A Bit of
Icy Antarctica Is Sliding Toward the Sea. Richard A. Kerr. Science
3) The Big
Thaw. Daniel Glick. National Geographic
4) Human
Prints on Warming. Bryn Nelson. Newsday
5) One
Expedition’s Story. UN Chronicle
6) Global
Warming: The Culprit? Jeffrey Kluger. Time
7) A Season
a Tad off Color, and Here’s Why. Avi Salzman. The New York Times
8) Arid
Arizona Points to Global Warming as Culprit. Juliet Eilperin. The
Washington Post
9) Climate
Change Means Big Changes in Puget Sound. Craig Welch. The Seattle
Times
10) A
Darkening Sky. Charles W. Petit. U.S. News & World Report
III.
Armageddon Approaching? What the Future Holds
Editor’s Introduction
1) Abrupt
Climate Change. Richard B. Alley. Scientific American
2) Crossing
the Threshold. Peter Bunyard. The Ecologist
3) Dire
Warming Warning for Earth’s Species. Jane Kay. The San
Francisco Chronicle
4) Northeast
Seen Getting Balmier. Michael Powell. The Washington Post
5) Risk to
State Dire in Climate Study. Miguel Bustillo. Los Angeles Times
6)
Continental Divide: Why Africa’s Climate Change Burden Is Greater. Scott
Fields. Environmental Health Perspectives
IV. What Can Be Done? Kyoto and Beyond
Editor’s Introduction
1) Kyoto
Update. Lynn Elsey. Weatherwise
2) It’s the
Emissions, Stupid. Paul Tolmé. National Wildlife
3) Oil
Project Goes Underground for Cleaner Air. Gary Polakovic. Los Angeles
Times
4) Carbon
Emissions Trading Is New Weapon to Battle Global Warming. Brad Foss.
Associated Press
5) Global
Warming and Nuclear Power. Richard A. Meserve. Science
6) Is
Hydrogen the Solution? Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
7) The
Warming Is Global but the Legislating, in the U.S., Is All Local.
Jennifer 8. Lee. The New York Times
Appendix
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Frame work Convention on
Climate Change
Bibliography
Books
Web Sites
Additional Periodical Articles with Abstracts
