The Discovery of Global Warming

Revised and Expanded Edition

Spencer R. Weart

  • A Discover Top Science Book of the Year
  • A USA Today Best Book of the Year
  • Preface
  1. How Could Climate Change?
  2. Discovering a Possibility
  3. A Delicate System
  4. A Visible Threat
  5. Public Warnings
  6. The Erratic Beast
  7. Breaking into Politics
  8. Speaking Science to Power
  9. The Work Completed...and Begun
  • Reflections
  • Milestones
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Cover: The Discovery of Global Warming
  • A photo of the author

author photo © 2004 Christian Bibas

Spencer R. Weart is Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.