The Discovery of Global Warming                                                                          Spencer Weart

January 2010      HOME    

List of illustrations

For more documentation of climate change today
visit worldviewofglobalwarming.org for photos,
and for clear scientific diagrams see the IPCC’s reports

People:
Akio Arakawa
Svante Arrhenius
Bert Bolin
Wallace ("Wally") Broecker
Reid Bryson
Mikhail Budyko
Guy Stewart Callendar
Jule Charney, Norman Phillips, Princeton Group
Willi Dansgaard, Chet Langway, Hans Oeschger
Jack Eddy
Maurice ("Doc") Ewing
James ("Jim") Hansen
Charles D. ("Dave") Keeling

Syukuro ("Suki") Manabe
Martin Manning, Susan Solomon, Dahe Qin (IPCC)
J. Murray Mitchell, Jr.
Rajendra Pachauri
Veerabhadran ("Ram") Ramanathan
Nicholas ("Nick") Shackleton
Roger Revelle
Stephen Schneider
Hans Suess
Warren Washington
Robert T. Watson
Harry Wexler & V.A. Bugaev
Robert ("Bob") White
Graphs:
Model of combined influences on global climate
Keeling's first observation of CO2 rise, 1960
Keeling's Mauna Loa CO2 curve as of 1971
Keeling's curve into the 21st century
Camp Century ice temperatures for 15,000 years
Vostok temperatures and CO2 for 150,000 years
Broecker and Emiliani's sawtooth glacial cycles
Callendar's 20th-century temperatures
20th-century temperature record as seen in 1982

Global temperatures since 1880
...separated by hemisphere
Heat content of the oceans
The "hockey stick" – 1000 years of Northern
   Hemisphere temperatures (1999; 2010)
...A dozen reconstructions compared (2007)
A proposed Sun-climate correlation
Sunspot cycles since 1750
Solar energy reaching Earth (satellite data)
Rising sea level
Diagrams:
"Wiring diagrams" of interconnections... Expanded
A primitive box model for carbon flow
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Schematic planet in 1969 computer model
Real geography in 1975 computer model ... Expanded

Other Pictures:
A cartoon view of the Office of Naval Research
Little America (Antarctica) 1956
Camp Century ice-core trench
Ice-core drillers (Andes, Greenland)
Vostok (Antarctica) drilling station
Deep-sea drilling
The Lamont deep-sea core library
Clathrate (methane hydrate)
The tundra flower dryas octopetala and its pollen
The foraminifer globigerinoides sacculifer
Princeton computer group with MANIAC I
NCAR labs, Boulder, CO
... supercomputer room
Mariner 9 view of Martian polar cap
Pinatubo 1991 eruption ash cloud

The 1930s Dust Bowl
The 1970s Sahel drought
Haze in the Grand Canyon
Alpine glacier change
Greenland ice stream discharge
Larsen B Ice Shelf breakup, 2002
Arctic and alpine wildlife
Edith's Checkerspot butterfly
Newsweek cover 1988
Calvin & Hobbes cartoon
Polar bear T-shirt
US govt. statement altered to minimize climate risk
Scientists at 2007 IPCC meetings
Rockman mural, "Manifest Destiny"
Author (Spencer Weart)