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

Charting the evolution and confirmation of the theory [of global warming], Weart dissects the interwoven threads of research and reveals the political and societal subtexts that colored scientists’ views and the public reception their work received.
   --Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times Book Review

  • 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.