Global Warming: Unfinished Business, Table of Contents

Global Warming: Unfinished Business
Table of Contents

PREFACE
1. OVERVIEW: The Scientific Case Against the Global Climate Treaty
2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2.1 A Perspective on a Century of Climate Concerns
2.2 Leading up to the Global Climate Treaty
2.3 Where Climate Policy Stands Now
2.4 General Scientific Controversies
2.5 Scientific Consensus and Peer Review
2.6 Climate Science Disputes
2.7 Mitigation of GHG Increases and of Climate Changes
2.8 How will GHG increase?
2.9 What Should Be the Goal for CO2 Stabilization?

3. MAJOR SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES

3.1 Carbon Dioxide in the Environment, Its Fate and Removal.
3.2 The Temperature Record of the Past 100 Years: Warming or Cooling?
3.3 Why Don't Observations Agree With Computer Models?
3.4 Will Sea Level Rise or Fall?
3.5 Severe Storms Have Diminished
3.6 Agriculture Will Benefit
3.7 Diseases are Spread By People and Poverty

4. EPILOGUE: WHAT TO DO

4.1 Mitigation
4.2 Ocean Fertilization

5. APPENDICES

5.1 Basic Science: Atmosphere; Radiation Forcing; Climate Modeling; Paleoclimate;
5.2 Energy Demand and CO₂ Emissions (John Lichtblau)
5.3 Critique of IPCC Scenarios (Henry Linden)
5.4 Summary of Economic Issues
5.5 Adapting to Climate Change: The Preferred Strategy
5.6 Exec. Summary of SEPP Report (1992)
5.7 Global Warming Politics (Selected Documents)
5.8 Glossary

6. REFERENCES AND NOTES
INDEX

		PREFACE 1. OVERVIEW: The Scientific Case Against the Global Climate Treaty 2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2.1 A Perspective on a Century of Climate Concerns 2.2 Leading up to the Global Climate Treaty 2.3 Where Climate Policy Stands Now 2.4 General Scientific Controversies 2.5 Scientific Consensus and Peer Review 2.6 Climate Science Disputes 2.7 Mitigation of GHG Increases and of Climate Changes 2.8 How will GHG increase? 2.9 What Should Be the Goal for CO2 Stabilization? 3. MAJOR SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES 3.1 Carbon Dioxide in the Environment, Its Fate and Removal. 3.2 The Temperature Record of the Past 100 Years: Warming or Cooling? 3.3 Why Don't Observations Agree With Computer Models? 3.4 Will Sea Level Rise or Fall? 3.5 Severe Storms Have Diminished 3.6 Agriculture Will Benefit 3.7 Diseases are Spread By People and Poverty 4. EPILOGUE: WHAT TO DO 4.1 Mitigation 4.2 Ocean Fertilization 5. APPENDICES 5.1 Basic Science: Atmosphere; Radiation Forcing; Climate Modeling; Paleoclimate; 5.2 Energy Demand and CO₂ Emissions (John Lichtblau) 5.3 Critique of IPCC Scenarios (Henry Linden) 5.4 Summary of Economic Issues 5.5 Adapting to Climate Change: The Preferred Strategy 5.6 Exec. Summary of SEPP Report (1992) 5.7 Global Warming Politics (Selected Documents) 5.8 Glossary 6. REFERENCES AND NOTES INDEX

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