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Climate Studies - Reading List



1. Historical Perspectives on Climate Change I (Fleming)
James Fleming, Global Environmental Change and the History of Science

2. Historical Perspectives on Climate Change II (Fleming)
James Fleming, Climate Change and Anthropogenic Greenhouse Warming
Spencer Weart, The idea of anthropogenic global climate change in the 20th century

3. Climate and Climate Change: The Scientific Basis (Frigg and Parker)
Andrew Dessler, Modern Climate Change
A.P.M. Baede ed., IPCC Glossary
IPCC Glossary Instructions

4. Is Climate Change Real? (Frigg)
Richard Alley et al., Summary for Policymakers

Guest Lecture. Climate Change: Situating Morality (Kallhoff)
Angela Kallhoff, Abstract
Simon Caney, Cosmopolitan Justice

5. Climate Modelling and Uncertainty about Future Climate Change I (Frigg)
Wendy Parker, Ensemble modeling, uncertainty and robust predictions
Quirin Schiermeier, The Real Holes in Climate Science

6. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Fleming)
Obituary: Bert Bolin
James Fleming, Review: Bert Bolin A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change
John Zillman, Some Observations on the IPCC Assessment Process 1988–2007

7. Debating Climate Change I: Proof and Consensus (Parker)
Naomi Oreskes, Science and public policy
William Anderegga et al., Expert credibility in climate change
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8. Climate Modeling and Uncertainty about Future Climate Change II (Frigg)
Roman Frigg et al., The Myopia of Imperfect Climate Models
Roman Frigg et al., Laplace’s Demon and Climate Change

9. Models, Measurement and Global Climate Datasets (Parker)
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10. Debating Climate Change II: Anomalies, Controversy & Politics (Parker)
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11. Precaution and Policy: Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change (Parker and Frigg)
Stephen Gardiner, Ethics and climate change: an introduction
Partha Dasgupta, Comments on the Stern Review's Economics of Climate Change
William Nordhaus, Critical Assumptions in the Stern Review on Climate Change
Nicholas Stern et al., Climate Change

12. Fixing the Sky: the quest to control climate (Fleming)
James Fleming, The Climate Engineers
James Fleming, Fixing the Sky




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