The Discovery of Global Warming                                                                          Spencer Weart

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List of illustrations

People:
Akio Arakawa
Svante Arrhenius
Bert Bolin
Wallace ("Wally") Broecker
Reid Bryson
Mikhail Budyko
Guy Stewart Callendar
Jule Charney, Norman Phillips, Princeton Group
Willi Dansgaard, Chet Langway, Hans Oeschger
Jack Eddy
Maurice ("Doc") Ewing

James ("Jim") Hansen
Charles D. ("Dave") Keeling
Syukuro ("Suki") Manabe
J. Murray Mitchell, Jr.
Veerabhadran ("Ram") Ramanathan
Nicholas ("Nick") Shackleton
Roger Revelle
Stephen Schneider
Hans Suess
Harry Wexler & V.A. Bugaev
Robert ("Bob") White

Graphs:
Keeling's first observation of CO2 rise, 1960
Keeling's Mauna Loa CO2 curve as of 1971
Keeling's curve through 2004
Camp Century ice temperatures for 15,000 years
Vostok temperatures and CO2 for 150,000 years
Broecker and Emiliani's sawtooth glacial cycles
Callendar's 20th-century temperatures


20th-century temperatures through 1982
Global temperatures 1860-2002
Rising sea level at New York City

The "hockey stick" – a millenium of Northern Hemisphere temperatures (1999) and A 2000-year global temperature reconstruction (2004)

Diagrams:
"Wiring diagrams" of interconnections... Expanded
A primitive box model for carbon flow
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Schematic planet in 1969 computer model
Real geography in 1975 computer model ... Expanded

Other Pictures:
Little America (Antarctica) 1956
Camp Century ice-core trench
Ice-core drillers (Andes, Greenland)

Vostok (Antarctica) drilling station
Deep-sea drilling
The Lamont deep-sea core library
Clathrate (methane hydrate)
The tundra flower dryas octopetala and its pollen
The foraminifer globigerinoides sacculifer
Princeton computer group with MANIAC I
Mariner 9 view of Martian polar cap
A cartoon view of the Office of Naval Research

NCAR labs, Boulder, CO... supercomputer room


The 1930s Dust Bowl
The 1970s Sahel drought
Haze in the Grand Canyon
Alpine glacier change
Greenland ice stream discharge
Pinatubo 1991 eruption ash cloud
Arctic and alpine wildlife
Newsweek cover 1988
Calvin & Hobbes cartoon
US govt. statement altered to minimize climate risks
Rockman mural, "Manifest Destiny"
Author (Spencer Weart)