Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy

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• Uniting on Climate: A Guide to the Climate Change Convention and the Kyoto Protocol . United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 2007, pp. 7-38. ( PDF - 3.7 MB ) ↗
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• Summary for Policymakers, Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report . Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Fourth Assessment Report. ( PDF - 1.9 MB ) ↗
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• Karl, Thomas R., and Kevin E. Trenberth. “Modern Global Climate Change.” Science 302 (2003): 1719-1723.
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• Prinn, Ronald. “Non-CO 2 Greenhouse Gases.” In The Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World . Edited by Christopher Field and Michael Raupach. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781559635271.
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• Summary for Policymakers, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis . Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I, Fourth Assessment Report, pp. 1-17. ( PDF - 3.7 MB ) ↗
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• Andreae, Meinrat, Chris Jones, and Peter Cox. “Strong Present-Day Aerosol Cooling Implies a Hot Future.” Nature 435 (2005): 1187-1190.
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• Callan, Scott, and Janet Thomas. Environmental Economics and Management: Theory, Policy and Applications . 4th ed. Florence, KY: South-Western, 2006, chapter 2. ISBN: 9780324320671.
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• Kolstad, Charles. Environmental Economics . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, chapter 4, pp. 49-77. ISBN: 9780195119541.
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• Schneider, Stephen. “Introduction to Climate Modeling.” In Climate System Modeling . Edited by Kevin Trenberth. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 3-26. ISBN: 9780521432313.
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• Hansen, James, et al. “Earth’s Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications.” Science 308 (2005): 1431-1435.
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• Penner, Joyce. “Climate Change: The Cloud Conundrum.” Nature 432 (2004): 962-963.
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• The Economics of Climate Change: A Primer . US Congressional Budget Office, 2003, chapter 3. ( PDF - 2.9 MB ) ↗
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• Callan, Scott, and Janet Thomas. Environmental Economics and Management: Theory, Policy and Applications . 4th ed. Florence, KY: South-Western, 2006, chapter 3. ISBN: 9780324320671.
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• The Economics of Climate Change: A Primer . US Congressional Budget Office, 2003, chapters 1, 3, and 4. ( PDF - 2.9 MB ) ↗
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• Weyant, J. “Economic Models: How They Work and Why Their Results Differ.” In Climate Change: Science, Strategies, and Solutions . Edited by Eileen Clausen. Washington, DC: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 2001. ISBN: 9789004122765.
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• Jacoby, Henry, and David Reiner. “Getting Climate on Track after The Hague: An Update.” Chapter 15 in The Global Governance Reader: Concepts and Issues . Edited by Rorden Wilkinson. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 9780415332064.
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• Thirteenth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the FCCC and Third Sessions of the MOP to the Kyoto Protocol, 3-15 December. Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 2007.
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• Bali Action Plan, Decision -/CP.13. Framework Convention on Climate Change, December 2007. (Also skim the COP-13 items at UNFCCC ) ↗
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• Pizer, William. “Choosing Price or Quantity Controls for Greenhouse Gases.” In Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology . Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2001. ISBN: 9781891853043.
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• “The Role of Coal in Energy Growth and CO2 Emissions.” Chapter 2 in The Future of Coal: Options for a Carbon-Constrained World . PDF available at The Future of Coal . ↗
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• Executive Summary, Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost? McKinsey & Company, 2007. ( PDF ) ↗
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• Jaffe, Adam, Richard Newell, and Robert Stavins. “Energy-Efficient Technologies and Climate Change Policies: Issues and Evidence.” In Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology . Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2001. ISBN: 9781891853043.
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• Babiker, Mustafa, John Reilly, and Henry Jacoby. “The Kyoto Protocol and Developing Countries.” MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Report No. 56, October 1999. ( PDF ) ↗
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• Prinn, Ronald, et al. “Integrated Global System Model for Climate Policy Assessment: Feedbacks and Sensitivity Studies.” Climatic Change 41 (1999): 469-546, sections 1, 2 and 3.
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• Sokolov, A. P., et al. “The MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) Version 2: Model Description and Baseline Evaluation.” MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Report No. 124, July 2005. ( PDF - 1.4 MB ) ↗
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• Buy at MIT Press Nordhaus, William, and Joseph Boyer. Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, chapter 4. ISBN: 9780262640541. ↗
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• Stern, Nicholas. “Economic Modeling of Climate Change Impacts.” Chapter 6 in The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521700801.
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• Oppenheimer, Michael. “Defining Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference: The Role of Science, the Limits of Science.” Risk Analysis 25 (2005): 1399-1407.
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• Buy at MIT Press Nordhaus, William, and Joseph Boyer. Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, chapter 7. ISBN: 9780262640541. ↗
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• Executive Summary, Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Anthropogenic Concentrations . U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.1a, 2007. ([PDF]( http://science.energy.gov/~/media/ber/pdf/Sap_2_1a_final_all.pdf )) ↗
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• Toth, Ferenc, et al. “Exploring Options for Global Climate Policy: A New Analytical Framework.” Environment 44 (2002): 23-33.
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• Paltsev, Sergey, et al. “Assessment of U.S. GHG Cap-and-Trade Proposals.” Climate Policy 8 (2008): 395-420.
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• Parry, Ian, and William Pizer. “Combating Global Warming: Is Taxation or Cap-and-Trade a Better Strategy for Reducing Greenhouse Emissions?” Regulation 30 (2007): 18-22.
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• Talbot, David. “Planning for a Climate-Changed World.” Technology Review , May-June 2007, pp. 63-70.
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• National Assessment Synthesis Team, U.S. Global Change Research Program. Climate Change Impacts on the United States . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 1-37. ISBN: 9780521000758.
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• Summary for Policymakers, Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability . Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group II, Fourth Assessment Report. ( PDF ) ↗
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• Stroeve, Julienne, et al. “Arctic Sea Ice Extent Plummets in 2007.” EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 89 (2008): 13-14.
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• Tedesco, Marco. “A New Record in 2007 for Melting in Greenland.” EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 88 (2007): 383.
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• Wolff, Eric. “Whither Antarctic Sea Ice?” Science 302 (2003): 1164.
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• Whitfield, John. “Alaska’s Climate: Too Hot to Handle.” Nature 425 (2003): 338-339.
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• Prinn, Ronald, et al. “Integrated Global System Model for Climate Policy Assessment: Feedbacks and Sensitivity Studies.” Climatic Change 41 (1999): 469-546, sections 4 and 5.
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• Webster, Mort, et al. “Uncertainty Analysis of Climate Change and Policy Response.” Climatic Change 61 (2003): 295-320.
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• Forest, Chris, Peter Stone, and Andrei Sokolov. “Estimated PDFs of Climate System Properties Including Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings.” Geophysical Research Letters 33 (2006): 1-4.
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• Webster, Mort. “Communicating Climate Change Uncertainty to Policy-Makers and the Public.” Climatic Change 61 (2003): 1-8.
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• Gibbons, Sheila J. Arenstam, and Robert J. Nicholls. “Island Abandoment and Sea-Level Rise: An Historical Analog from the Chesapeake Bay, USA.” Global Environmental Change 16 (2006): 40-47.
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• Chao, B. F., Y. H. Wu, and Y. S. Li. “Impact of Artificial Reservoir Water Impoundment on Global Sea Level.” Science 320 (2008): 212-214.
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• Webster, Mort, Lisa Jakobovitz, and James Norton. “Learning about Climate Change and Implications for Near-Term Policy.” Climatic Change 89 (2008): 67-85.
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• Aldy, Joseph, and Robert Stavins. “Introduction: International Policy Architecture for Global Climate Change.” Chapter 1 in Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521692175.
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• Bunn, Andrew, et al. “Northern High-Latitude Ecosystems Respond to Climate Change.” EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 88 (2007): 333-335.
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• Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. Highlights Brochure, Impacts of a Warming Arctic . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 1-16. ISBN: 9780521617789.
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• Kerr, Richard. “Confronting the Bogeyman of the Climate System.” Science 310 (2005): 432-433.
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• Harvell, C. Drew, et al. “Climate Warming and Disease Risks for Terrestrial and Marine Biota.” Science 296 (2002): 2158-2162.
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• Kerr, Richard. “A Bit of Icy Antarctica Is Sliding Toward the Sea.” Science 305 (2004): 1897.
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• Morton, Oliver. “Is This What it Takes to Save the World?” Nature 447 (2007): 132-136.
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• Mann, Michael, et al. “Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Revisited.” EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 88 (2007): 349.
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• Emanuel, Kerry. “Increasing Destructiveness of Tropical Cyclones Over the Past 30 Years.” Nature 436 (2005): 686-688.
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• Schiermeier, Quirin. “Clear Skies Raise Global-Warming Estimates.” Nature 435 (2005): 1142-1143.
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