ESRP 285: Text, Links, Downloads

 Text: The Discovery of Global Warming
by Spencer Weart, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003

 Links

 website to accompany Spencer Weart's book

 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC)

 Pew Center on Climate Change

 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (Dec 2009)

MIT Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

 PCAP: Presidential Climate Action Project

 CIG: Climate Impacts Group -- impact of climate change in the Pacific Northwest

 WSU and other universities commit to action on climate change

 Climate Change and the State of Washington

 Senator Obama's Proposal for Cap & Trade in carbon allowances:
with cap set for 80% reduction by 2050 (Senator Obama's Energy Fact Sheet)

 Princeton Unversity (CMI) Wedges Game

 link to Senator Cantwell's Website Description of the CLEAR Act

 Downloads on the Science of Climate Change

The geologic record (from Technology Review, The Messenger, July/August 2006)

 New York Times (Jan 13, 2011): The Year 2010 was the hottest on record

 Spencer Weart's article (2003) on the Discovery of Rapid Climate Change

 James Hansen's article (2007) on Climate Change and Trace Gases

 The Stern Review
(The Economics of Climate Change Executive Summary, 2006)

  Downloads on Energy and Carbon Policies

 Climate Change and the Electric Power Industry (Andrew Ford, book chapter)

 Diagrams for CO2 use and Energy Use

 EIA Study of S139 (2003) The Climate Stewardship Act of 2003
(The McCain-Leiberman proposal received 43 votes in the Senate)

 Energy Policy article (2008) on the Impact of S139 in the Western USA

EIA Study of S2191 (2007) The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2007

  EIA Study of HR 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
(The Waxman-Markey proposal passsed the House in June 2009)

 Energy Policy article (2007)on Tradeable Green Certificates and wind generation

 MIT report (April 2007) on the Cost of Cap and Trade Proposals in the USA

  MIT report (Sept 2009) on the Cost of Climate Policy Proposals in the USA

 Climate Solutions: A Citizen's Guide by Peter Barnes

 Downloads on Adaptation to Climate Change

 The H. John Heinz III Center (2006) Survey of Climate Change Adaptation Planning
CAKE: the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange