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Encyclopedia of Global Warming

Table of Contents

Abrupt climate change



Adiabatic processes



Advancement of Sound Science Center



Aerosols



Biography of Louis Agassiz



Agenda 21



Agriculture and agricultural land



Agroforestry



Air conditioning and air-cooling technology



Air pollution and pollutants: anthropogenic



Air pollution and pollutants: natural



Air pollution history



Air quality standards and measurement



Air travel



Albedo feedback



Alkalinity



Alleroed oscillation



Alliance of Small Island States



Amazon deforestation



American Association for the Advancement of Science



American Association of Petroleum Geologists



American Astronomical Society



American Chemical Society



American Enterprise Institute



American Geophysical Union



American Institute of Physics



American Meteorological Society



American Physical Society



Amphibians



Animal husbandry practices



Annex B of the Kyoto Protocol



Antarctic Treaty



Antarctica: threats and responses



Anthropogenic climate change



Anthropogeomorphology



Aral Sea desiccation



Arctic



Arctic peoples



Arctic seafloor claims



Biography of Gustaf Arrhenius



Biography of Svante August Arrhenius



Asia-Pacific Partnership



Asthma



Atlantic heat conveyor



Atlantic multidecadal oscillation



Atmosphere



Atmospheric boundary layer



Atmospheric chemistry



Atmospheric dynamics



Atmospheric structure and evolution



Australia



Automobile technology



Average weather



Biography of Daniel Axelrod



Bangladesh



Barrier islands



Basel Convention



Baseline emissions



Bayesian method



Benefits of climate policy



Biography of Hugh Hammond Bennett



Berlin Mandate



Biodiversity



Bioethics



Biofuels



Biotechnology



Bowen’s ratio



Brazil



Brundtland Commission and Report



Budongo Forest Project



Building decay



Byrd-Hagel Resolution



California



Canada



Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society



Canaries in the coal mine



Carbon cycle



Carbon dioxide



Carbon dioxide equivalent



Carbon dioxide fertilization



Carbon equivalent



Carbon footprint



Carbon 4 plants



Carbon isotopes



Carbon monoxide



Carbon taxes



Carbon 3 plants



Carbonaceous aerosols



Biography of Rachel Carson



Catalytic converters



Catastrophist-cornucopian debate



Cato Institute



Cement and concrete



Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change



Certified emissions reduction



Charcoal



Chemical industry



China, People’s Republic of



Chlorofluorocarbons and related compounds



Cities for Climate Protection



Civilization and the environment



Clathrates



Clean Air Acts, U.S.



Clean development mechanism



Clean energy



Climate and the climate system



Climate change



Climate Change Science Program, U.S.



Climate engineering



Climate feedback



Climate lag



Climate models and modeling



Climate prediction and projection



Climate Project



Climate reconstruction



Climate sensitivity



Climate variability



Climate zones



Climatology



Clouds and cloud feedback



Coal



Coastal impacts of global climate change



Coastline changes



Collapse



Colorado River transformation



Competitive Enterprise Institute



Composting



Conservation and preservation



Conservatism



Conspiracy theories



Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research



Continental climate



Contrails



Convention on Biological Diversity



Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species



Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution



Cooler Heads Coalition



Coriolis effect



Cosmic rays



Cryosphere



Damages: market and nonmarket



Dating methods



Day After Tomorrow, The



Deforestation



Deglaciation



Desalination of seawater



Desertification



Deserts



Dew point



Diatoms



Diseases



Displaced persons and refugees



Dolphins and porpoises



Downscaling



Drought



Dust storms



Earth history



Earth motions



Earth structure and development



Earth Summits



Earthquakes



Easter Island



Eastern Europe



Ecocentrism vs. technocentrism



Ecological impact of global climate change



Economics of global climate change



Ecosystems



Ecotaxation



Ecoterrorism



Education about global climate change



8.2ka event



Ekman transport and pumping



El Niño-Southern Oscillation



Biography of Charles Sutherland Elton



Biography of Cesare Emiliani



Emission scenario



Emissions standards



Employment



Endangered and threatened species



Energy efficiency



Energy from waste



Energy Policy Act of 1992



Energy resources



Engineers Australia



Enhanced greenhouse effect



Environmental economics



Environmental law



Environmental movement



Estuaries



Ethanol



Europe and the European Union



Evapotranspiration



Extinctions and mass extinctions



Extreme weather events



Faculae



Falsifiability rule



Famine



Fire



Fishing industry, fisheries, and fish farming



Flood barriers, movable



Floods and flooding



Florida



Fog



Food and Agriculture Organization



Forcing mechanisms



Forestry and forest management



Forests



Fossil fuel emissions



Fossil fuel reserves



Fossil fuels



France



Fraser Institute



Freshwater



Friends of Science Society



Friends of the Earth



Fronts



Fuels, alternative



Gaia hypothesis



Gasoline prices



General circulation models



Geographical information systems



Geoid



Geological Society of America



George C. Marshall Institute



Geothermal energy



Germany



Glacial Lake Agassiz



Glaciations



Glaciers



Biography of Clarence J. Glacken



Global climate



Global Climate Coalition



Global dimming



Global economy



Global energy balance



Global Environment Facility



Global monitoring



Global surface temperature



Global warming potential



Biography of Al Gore



Greenhouse effect



Greenhouse Gas Protocol



Greenhouse gases



Greening Earth Society



Greenland ice cap



Greenpeace



Ground ice



Groundwater



Group of 77 and China



Gulf Stream



Gyres



Hadley circulation



Halocarbons



Halons



Health impacts of global warming



Heartland Institute



Heat capacity



Heat content



Heat vs. temperature



Heritage Foundation



Heterotrophic respiration



High global warming potential



High Park Group



Hockey stick graph



Holocene climate



Hubbert’s peak



Human behavior change



Human migration



Humidity



Hybrid automobiles



Hydroelectricity



Hydrofluorocarbons



Hydrogen power



Hydrologic cycle



Hydrosphere



Ice cores



Ice-out studies



Ice shelves



Inconvenient Truth, An



India



Industrial ecology



Industrial emission controls



Industrial greenhouse emissions



Industrial Revolution



Information Council on the Environment



Institute for Trade, Standards, and Sustainable Development



Intergenerational equity



Interglacials



Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change



Intergovernmental Panel on Forests



International agreements and cooperation



International Atomic Energy Agency



International Council for Science



International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme



International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change



International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis



International Policy Network



International Union for Conservation of Nature



International waters



Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone



Invasive exotic species



Iran



Islands



Isostasy



Italy



Japan



Jet stream



Journalism and journalistic ethics



Kilimanjaro



Kyoto lands



Kyoto mechanisms



Kyoto Protocol



Biography of Hubert Horace Lamb



Land use and reclamation



La Niña



Last Glacial Maximum



Latent heat flux



Lavoisier Group



Levees



Level of scientific understanding



Liberalism



Libertarianism



Lichens



Liming



Limits to Growth, The



Lithosphere



Little Ice Age



Louisiana coast



Maldives



Biography of Thomas Robert Malthus



Biography of Syukuro Manabe



Mangroves



Marginal seas



Maritime climate



Biography of George Perkins Marsh



Mass balance



Mauna Loa Record



Mean sea level



Media



Medieval Warm Period



Mediterranean climate



Mediterranean Sea



Megacities



Meridional overturning circulation



Mesosphere



Meteorology



Methane



Mexico



Microwave sounding units



Middle East



Biography of Milutin Milankovic



Military implications of global warming



Minerals and mining



Modes of climate variability



Mold spores



Monsoons



Montreal Protocol



Motor vehicles



Mount Pinatubo



National Center for Policy Analysis



National Climate Program Act



National Research Council



Natural Resources Stewardship Project



Netherlands



New Orleans



Nitrogen cycle



Nitrogen fertilization



Nitrous oxide



Noctilucent clouds



Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change



Nongovernmental organizations



Nonlinear processes



North Atlantic Oscillation



North Korea



Northwest Passage



Nuclear energy



Nuclear winter



Ocean acidification



Ocean-atmosphere coupling



Ocean disposal



Ocean dynamics



Ocean life



Offsetting



Oil industry



Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine



Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries



Oxygen, atmospheric



Oxygen isotopes



Ozone



Paleoclimates and paleoclimate change



Parameterization



Particulates



Peer review



Penguins



Perfluorocarbons



Permafrost



Pesticides and pest management



Petroleum hydrocarbons in the ocean



pH



Phosphorus cycle



Photosynthesis



Biography of Gifford Pinchot



Planetary atmospheres and evolution



Plankton



Plate tectonics



Pleistocene climate



Poland



Polar bears



Polar climate



Polar stratospheric clouds



Polar vortex



Pollen analysis



Polluter pays principle



Popular culture



Population growth



Portfolio analysis



Poverty



Precautionary approach



Preindustrial society



Pseudoscience and junk science



Radiative damping



Radiative forcing



Rainfall patterns



Ramsar Convention



Reason Public Policy Institute



Reefs



Regional, local, and microclimates



Religious Right



Renewable energy



Reservoirs, pools, and stocks



Residence time



Response time



Biography of Roger Revelle



Biography of F. Sherwood Rowland



Rural air quality



Russian Federation



Sahara Desert



Sahel drought



Saltwater intrusion



Saudi Arabia



Biography of Carl Sauer



Biography of E. F. Schumacher



Science and Public Policy Institute



Scientific Alliance



Scientific credentials



Scientific proof



Sea ice



Sea-level change



Sea sediments



Sea surface temperatures



Seasonal changes



Second Assessment Report



Security



Sequestration



Siberian river diversion proposal



Sierra Club



Sinks



Skeptics



Skin cancer



Slab-ocean model



Soil erosion



Solar cycle



Solar energy



SourceWatch



South Africa



South Korea



Speculative fiction



Stockholm Declaration



Storm surges



Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London



Stratosphere



Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice



Sulfate aerosols



Sulfur cycle



Sulfur hexafluoride



Sun



Sun protection



Sunspots



Sustainable development



Technological change



Thermocline



Thermohaline circulation



Thermosphere



Biography of Henry David Thoreau



Thunderstorms



Tidal power



Tornadoes



Trace gases



Transportation



Tree-planting programs



Tree rings



Tropical climate



Tropical storms



Troposphere



Tsunamis



Tundra



Tuvalu



Ukraine



Ultraviolet radiation



Union of Concerned Scientists



United Kingdom



United Nations Climate Change Conference



United Nations Conference on Environment and Development



United Nations Conference on the Human Environment



United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea



United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification



United Nations Division for Sustainable Development



United Nations Environment Programme



United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change



United States



Urban heat island



U.S. and European politics



U.S. Climate Action Report, 2002



U.S. energy policy



U.S. legislation



Venice



Volatile organic compounds



Volcanoes



Biography of Gilbert Walker



Walker circulation



Water quality



Water resources, global



Water resources, North American



Water rights



Water vapor



Wave power



Weather forecasting



Weather vs. climate



Biography of Alfred Wegener



Western Fuels Association



Wetlands



WGII LESS scenarios



Whales



Wind power



World Bank



World Health Organization



World Heritage Sites



World Meteorological Organization



World Trade Organization



Younger Dryas