Chapter 12Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion
General information on books can be reviewed at websites such as amazon.com.
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Akimoto, Hajime. 2003. “Global Air Quality and Pollution.” Science, Vol. 302, 1716-1719/
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Alley, Richard B. 2002.The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future. Princeton, N. J.: PrincetonUniversity Press.
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American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics. 2003.The Discovery of Global Warming.
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Anderson, Stephen O., and K. Madhava Sarma. 2005. Protecting the Ozone Layer: the United Nations History.London: Earthscan.
Annenberg/CPB. Planet Earth. Video Series.
Appenzeller, Tim. 2007. “The Big Thaw.” National Geographic, June, 56-71.
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Associated Press. 2007. “California Placed Under Climate Microscope.”” MSNBC News, Dec. 30.
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Athanasiou, Tom, and Paul Baer. 2002.Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming.New York: Seven Stories Press
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Ausubel, Kenny. 2004. “The Long Way Home.” AlterNet, Oct. 15.
Avery, Dennis T., and S. Fred Singer. 2007.Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years.Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.
Ayres, Jon, et al. 2006. Air Pollution and Health.London: Hackensack, N. J.: World Scientific Publishing Co.
Ayres, Robert U. 2001. "How Economists Have Misjudged Global Warming." World Watch, September/October, 12.
Babiker, M. H., et al. 2002. “The Evolution of a Climate Regime: Kyoto to Marrakech and Beyond.” Environmental Science and Policy, vol. 5, no. 3, 195.
Bagley, Sharon. 2007. “Birds in Peril. Climate Change Increases the Number of Endangered Species.” Newsweek, Nov. 28.
Bajak, Frank. 2007. “As Glaciers Shrink, Andes Cities Run Out of Water.” MSNBC, Nov. 26.
Baker-LaPorte, Paula, et al. 2008.Prescriptions for A Healthy House. 3rd.GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Society.
Barcott, Bruce. 2004. “Changing All the Rules.” New York Times, April 4.
Barns, Peter. 2003.Who Owns the Sky? Our Common Assets and the Future of Capitalism.Washington D. C.: Island Press.
Bauerlin, Monika. 2006. “Every Breath You Take.” Sierra, July/August, 56-78.
BBC News. 2003. “Kyoto Will Not Stop Global Warming.” Aug. 7.
BBC News. 2003. “No Solution Found in More Trees.” Nov. 28.
Benedick, Richard E. 1998. Ozone Diplomacy. 2nd ed. Harvard, Mass.: HarvardUniversity Press.
Bindschadler, R.A., and C. R. Bentley. 2002. “On Thin Ice? Western Antarctica’s Ice Sheet.” Scientific American, vol. 287, 98.
Biscaye, Pierre F., et al. 2000. “Eurasian Air Pollution Reaches Eastern North America.” Science, vol. 290, 2258-2259.
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Blumberg, Mark S., 2004.Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth.Cambridge, Mass.: HarvardUniversity Press.
Boehmer-Christiansen, Sonja, and Aynsley J. Kellow. 2003.International Environmental Policy: Interests and the Failure of the Kyoto Process.Northhampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar.
Bolin, Bert. 2007. A History of the Science and Politics of Change.New York: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Bonneville Environmental Foundation. Carbon Calculator: Calculating Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions Footprint.
Bonneville Environmental Foundation. Green Tags:Reducing Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
Borenstein, Seth. 2007. “Rate of Ice Melting Shocks Warming Experts.” MSNBC News, December 12.
Boubel, Richard W., et al. 1994. Fundamentals of Air Pollution, 3rd ed. New York: Academic Press.
Bourne, Joel K., Jr. 2004. “Gone With the Water: Louisiana’s Vanishing Wetlands.” National Geographic, October, 87.
Bowker, Michael. 2003.Fatal Deception: The Terrifying True Story of How Asbestos Is Killing America.New York: Touchstone.
Brain, Marshall, and Craig C. Freudenrich.How Radon Works.
Braasch, Gary. 2007. Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World.Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.
Bradsher, Keith. 2003. “China’s Boom Adds to Global Warming Problem.” New York Times, Oct. 27.
Brill, David C., ed. 2006.Cleaning America’s Air: Progress and Challenges.Knoxville, Tenn.: HowardBakerCenter.
Broder, John M. 2007. “Governors Join in Creating Regional Pacts on Climate Change.” New York Times, November 15.
Broecker, Wallace S. 2001. “Glaciers That Speak in Tongues and Other Tales of Global Warming.” Natural History, vol. 110, 60.
Broecker, Wallace S. 2007. “CO2 Arithmetic.” Science, vol. 315, 1371.
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Bryner, Gary. 1992. Blue Skies, Green Politics: The Clean Air Act of 1990. Washington, D. C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.
Bryner, Gary, and Milred Vassan, eds. 2006. Global Warming: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO.
Buesseler, Ken O., and Philip W. Boyd. 2003. “WillOcean Fertilization Work?” Science, vol. 300, 67.
Bunyard, Peter. 2001.The Breakdown of Climate: Human Choices or Global Disaster. Edinburgh, Scotland:Floris.
Burroughs, William J. 2003. Climate: Into the 21st Century.New York: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Burroughs, William J. 2007. Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach. 2nd ed. New York: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Cairncross, Frances. 2004. “What Makes Environmental Treaties Work? Conservation in Practice, vol. 5, no. 2, 12.
Calculate Your Personal CO2 Input to the Atmosphere.
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Calvin, William H. 2003. A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change.Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.
Campbell, Kurt M., et al. 2007. The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change. Washington, D. C.: Center for a New American Security.
Campus Climate Challenge.
Canadell, Joseph G., et al. 2007.“Contributions to Accelerating Atmospheric CO2 Growth From Economic Activity, Carbon Intensity, and Efficiency of Natural Sinks.” Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences, October 25,
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Carbon Disclosure Project. Greenhouse Gas Emissions By the World’s 500 Largest Companies.
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Cato Institute.Global Warming.
Center for American Progress. 2006. Paper Tigers and Killer Air: How Weak Enforcement Leaves Communities Vulnerable to Smog.
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CFC Smuggling. Montreal Protocol.
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Chicago Climate Exchange.Using the Marketplace to Reduce and Trade Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
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Choose Climate.Calculate the Fuel Consumption andGreenhouse Gas Emissions Per Passenger for a Plane Trip.
Choose Climate.Interactive Climate Model Linking Climate Science and Policy.
Christianson, Gale E. 1999.Greenhouse: The 2000-Year Story of Global Warming.New York: Walker.
Christie, Maureen. 2001.The Ozone Layer: A Philosophy of Science Perspective.New York: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Claussen, Eileen, et al., eds. 2001. Climate Change: Science, Strategies, and Solutions.Herndon, Va.: Brill Academic.
Clean Air-Cool Planet.Finding and Promoting Solutions to Global Warming.
Clean Air Task Force. 2004. Abt Associates Report, Power Plant Emissions: Particulate Matter-Related Health Damages and the Benefits of Alternative Emission Reduction Scenarios. June.
Clean Car Campaign.2004. Emissions.
Clean Water Action Council (CWAC) Air Quality.
Clear the Air. The Bush Administration Air Pollution Plan: Leaving a Generation of Children Behind.
Clear the Air. Fact Sheets.
Clear the Air. Get the Facts and Clear the Air.
Clear the Air. Reports.
Climate Action Network (CAN) International.
ClimateArk—Climate Change Portal.
Climate Challenge.
Climate Change Knowledge Network.
Climate Change Solutions.
Climate Through the Ages. Climate Time Line.
Climate Institute.
Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL), NOAA.
Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL), NOAA. Assortment of Ozone Data Graphs.
Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL), NOAA. Observed Ozone Changes.
Climate Neutral Network.Helping Companies. Communities, and Consumers Achieve a Net Zero Impact on the Earth’s Climate.
Climate News.
Climate Prediction.
Climate Prediction.News Centre.
Climate Solutions.
Climate Vision. Voluntary Actions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States.U.S. Department of Energy.
Coequyt, John, et al. 2000.Mercury Falling: An Analysis of Mercury Pollution from Coal-Burning Power Plants. Environmental Working Group, Natural Resources Defense Council.
Collins, William, et al. 2007. “The Physical Science Behind Climate Change.” Scientific American. August., 64-71.
Cooper, C. David, and F. C. Alley. 2002.Air Pollution Control, 3rd ed. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press.
Cowie, Jonathan. 2007. Climate Change: Biological and Human Aspects.New York: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Cox, John D. 2005. Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for Our Future. Washington, D. C.: Joseph Henry Press.
Crowley, Thomas J. 2000. "Causes of Climate Change Over the Past 200 Years." Science, vol. 289, 270.
Cylnes, Tom 2007. “Konrad Steffen: The Global Warming Prophet of Melt.” Popular Science, August, pp. 53-57, 104-105.
Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe. 2000. “The Greenland Ice Sheet Reacts.” Science, vol. 289, 404.
Darley, Julian, et al, 2005. Relocalize Now: Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil—A Post Carbon Guide. GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Society.
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David Suzuki Foundation.Global Warming.
Davis, Crystal. 2007.Ocean Acidification: The Other Threat of Rising CO2 Emissions. Earth Trends, World Resources Institute. September.
Davis, Devra L. 2004. When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution.New York: Basic Books.
Davis, Devera L., et al. 2002. “A Look Back at the London Smog of 1952 and the Half Century Since.” Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 110, A734.
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DiMentao, Joseph F. C., and Oamela M. Doughman, eds. 2007. Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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Doucet, Clive. 2007. Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual.GabriolaIsland, B. C., Canada: New Society.
Doughman, Pamela M. 2007. “California’s Climate Change Policy: Raising the Bar.” Environment, September, 35-43.
Dow, Kristin, and Thomas E. Downing.2006.The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge.Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.
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Doyle, Jack. 2000.Taken for a Ride: Detroit’s Big Three and the Politics of Air Pollution.New York: Four Walls Eight Windows.
Drake, Frances. 2000.Global Warming and the Science of Climate Change.New York: Hodder Arnold
Drew, Christopher, and Richard A. Oppel, Jr. 2004. “How Industry Won the Battle of Pollution Control at E.P.A. New York Times, Mar. 6.
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Dunn, Seth. 2002. Reading the Weathervane: Climate Policy from Rio to Johannesburg. Washington, D. C.: Worldwatch Institute.
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Earthjustice.Air.
Earth Observatory (NASA). Data & Images.
Easterbrook, Greg. 2007. “Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?” The Atlantic, April, 54-64.
Easterling, David R., et al, 2000. “Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts.” Science, vol. 289, 2068.
Economy, Elizabeth. 2007. “China vs. Earth: How China is Threatening the World’s Environment.” AlterNet, May 7.
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Ehrlich, Robert. 2003.Eight Preposterous Propositions. Princeton, N. J.: PrincetonUniversity Press.
Elvin, Mark. 2004.The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. New Haven, Conn.: YaleUniversity Press.
Environlink.Climate Change.
Envirolink: The Online Environmental Community:
Environmental Defense.Dirty Diesels: Diesel Nonroad Engines.
Environmental Defense.Early Warnings on Global Warming: Map Depicts Symptoms, Hot Spots.
Environmental Defense.How Green Is Your Car?
Environmental Literacy Council. Climate.
Environmental Working Group. The Asbestos Epidemic in America.
Environment Canada. Atmospheric Science: Acid Rain.
Environment Canada. Clean Air.
Environment News Service. 2006. “Growth of Atmospheric Methane Stabilizes: May Slow Global Warming.” November 21.
Environment News Service. 2006. “Too Many Air Polluters, Too Few Inspectors.” November 30.
Environment News Service. 2007. “2007 Antarctic Ozone Hole Smaller But Not Recovering.” October 19.
Environment News Service. 2007. “Climate Change Traps World’s Poorest.” November 27.
Environment News Service. 2007. “Industrialized Countries Greenhouse Gases Hit Record High.” November 20.
Environment News Service. 2007. “North America’s Carbon Budget Out of Balance.”
Environment News Service. 2007. “Power Plant Emissions Ranked as a Climate Action Tool.” November 15.
Environment News Service. 2007. “Shrinking Arctic Ice Opens Northwest Passage.” October 1.
Environment News Service. 2007. “Vulnerable Communities Worldwide Adapt to Climate Change.” December 5.
Environment News Source. 2007. “Warming Climate Undermines World Food Supply.” December 4.
Epstein, P. R. 2000. “Is Global Warming Harmful to Human Health?” Scientific American, vol. 283, 50.
Essex, Christopher, and Ross McKitrick. 2003. Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warming. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Key Porter Books.
Evangelical Climate Initiative.
Exploratorium. Biodiversity and Climate Change.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).Climate Change.
Freudenrich, Craig C.How Ozone Pollution Works.
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German Advisory Council on Global Climate Change. 2006. The Future Oceans-Warming Up, Rising High, and Turning Sour.
Gilbert, Chin. 2002. “Climate Science:Deicing the Arctic.” Science, vol. 298, 1301.
Girardet, Herbert, ed. 2007. Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges. London: Earthscan.
Glaciers.Virtual tour of Antarctica.
Glantz, Michael H. 2002. Climate Affairs: A Primer. Washington, D. C.: Island Press.
Global Change Data and Information System. (GCDIS).
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Global Warming. Early Warning Signs.
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Goddard Institute of Space Studies (NASA).
GoddardSpaceFlightCenter. Air Pollution Images.
GoddardSpaceFlightCenter. Centers for Ozone Data & Information.
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