References For Further Study
by Brad Marston
Further information and references for my talk "The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming," can be found at this web site where I've collected some of the more interesting sources. Also, for Apple computer users running OS X, there is a program that integrates and displays the Lorenz Equations available for download at the bottom of the page.
Data
for my
talk is culled from many
sources, but one that is especially comprehensive, and also available
on-line, is the IPCC 3rd Assessment
Report on Climate Change, in particular the volume "Climate
Change
2001: The Scientific Basis." PDF files of the separate
chapters can be downloaded from http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/.
The hardcopy volume can also be ordered from Amazon.com -- it is
published by Cambridge University Press.Highly recommend for the working out of simple models of climate are two books by physicist / ecologist John Harte, Consider a Spherical Cow: A Course in Environmental Problem Solving and its sequel, Consider a Cylindrical Cow.
Some climate reconstructions that I show during my talk can be found at URL http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/recons.html. Look in particular at the 2000-year reconstruction. Richard Muller and Gordon MacDonald have written an excellent (albeit very expensive!) book on Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes: Data, Spectral Analysis and Mechanisms.
The most recent assessment of the climate can be found here: Annual Review of Climate.
Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas concentration data can be obtained at URL http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/home.html.
An excellent textbook that I highly recommend is The Physics of Atmospheres (3rd edition) by the distinguished John Houghton. Also see Peixoto and Oort, The Physics of Climate.
An outstanding recent history of the science of climate change was just written by historian and physicist Spencer Weart of the American Institute of Physics. The hardcopy book is called The Discovery of Global Warming but the author has an even more extensive web site with thousands of key references that can be downloaded in one shot from URL http://www.aip.org/history/climate/.
For Jim Hansen's perspective on the politics of climate change, click on The Global Warming Debate. Richard Lindzen's "Iris hypothesis" is discussed here.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has issued a strong statement on "Human Impacts on Climate."
If you'd like to download and run
your own climate model on a fast PC, go to: ClimatePrediction.net
Download LorenzAttractor application for Mac OSX
(Works best with OS 10.3, aka "Panther".)
Disclaimer: I wrote this program for my own use,
and make it available "as is." By downloading
LorenzAttractor, you accept full responsibility for any
problems that might arise. Also, the program may not
be restributed in any form or by any means, unless
explicit written permission is obtained from Brad Marston.
E-mail: marston "at" physics.brown.edu
(replace "at" with "@")
Web: http://www.physics.brown.edu/physics/userpages/faculty/Brad
Marston/
Last update: July 20, 2004
Last update: July 20, 2004