''The Discovery of Global Warming'' is a book by
physicist
A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.
Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...
and historian
Spencer R. Weart
Spencer R. Weart (born 1942) is the former director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) from 1971 until his retirement in 2009.
Life
Originally trained as a physicist, he is now a historian of scienc ...
published in 2003; revised and updated edition, 2008. It traces the history of scientific discoveries that led to the current
scientific opinion on climate change
There is a strong scientific consensus that the Earth is warming and that this warming is mainly caused by human activities. This consensus is supported by various studies of scientists' opinions and by position statements of scientific org ...
. It has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese and Korean.
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History of climate change science
The history of the scientific discovery of climate change began in the early 19th century when ice ages and other natural changes in paleoclimate were first suspected and the natural greenhouse effect was first identified. In the late 19th cent ...
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External links
Online expanded and updated version of ''The Discovery of Global Warming''
2003 non-fiction books
2003 in the environment
2008 in the environment
21st-century history books
History books about scientific discoveries
Harvard University Press books
Climate change books
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