Mankind's impact on climate: The evolution of an awareness

Abstract

Abstract. The first inklings of an understanding of the role played by infraredabsorbing gases in maintaining the warmth of the surface of our planet were voiced early in the 19th century, and by the turn of this century quantitative calculations had been carried out that demonstrated how a

Experiences of modernity in the greenhouse: A cultural analysis of a physicist “trio” supporting the backlash against global warming

“…The majority of work discussing the dissenting scientists involved in US climate politics has been by scientists and journalists without grounding in social science literature (see among many others, Begley, 2007;Gelbspan, 1995Gelbspan, , 1997Helvarg, 1994;Hertsgaard, 2006;Houghton, 1997;Kellogg, 1987Kellogg, , 1991Mother Jones, 2005;Rowell, 1996). This popular literature tends to highlight financial benefits enjoyed by backlash scientists through affiliations with industry and conservative groups.…”

Frame-based guide to situated decision-making on climate change

“…During much of the past three decades, for example, they had to deal with a reality in which climate change mitigation and adaptation were sharply separated both in science and in politics. Back in the 1980s, as Kellogg (1987) mentioned, preventing (or delaying) the change and adapting to the change were depicted as the two decision tree branches that showed the whole range of policy choices. In contrast to prevention, adaptation was the option for both sceptics and fatalists (Thompson and Rayner, 1998).…”

Influence of the greenhouse effect on yields of wheat, soybean and corn in the United States for different energy scenarios

“…Especially Manabe and Wetherald (1986) show a serious decrease of summer precipitation associated with warming. Analyses of the climate of the recent past (Williams, 1980;Wigley et al, 1980;J~iger and Kellogg, 1983) and the distant past (Kellogg, 1987) also show the same tendency. Regression analysis in Kansas also gives a negative coefficient between summer temperature and precipitation, which is as strong as -0.73 in July (Katz, 1977).…”