http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/04/10#climate-change <P>Need I add that this is an inadequate placeholder? <ul>Recommended: <li>Gerard H. Roe and Marcia B. Baker, "Why Is Climate Sensitivity So Unpredictable?", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1144735"><cite>Science</cite> <strong>318</strong> (2007): 629--632</a> ["It's the positive feedback, stupid."] </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Richard B. Alley, <cite>Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future</cite> <li>Nils Berglund and Barbara Gentz, "Metastability in simple climate models: Pathwise analysis of slowly driven Langevin equations," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0111110">physics/0111110</a> <li>William James Burroughs, <cite>Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos</cite> [<a href="http://www.cambridge.org/0521824095">Blurb</a>] <li>Tom D. Dillehay and Alan L. Kolata, "Long-term human response to uncertain environmental conditions in the Andes", <a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/101/12/4325"><cite>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</cite> <strong>101</strong> (2004): 4325--4330</a> <li>Stephen Griffies, <cite>Fundamentals of Ocean Climate Models</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7797.html">Blurb</a>] <li>James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, Ken Lo, David W. Lea, and Martin Medina-Elizade, "Global temperature change", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1073/pnas.0606291103"><cite>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</cite> (USA) <strong>103</strong> (2006): 14288--14293</a> <li>William D. Nordhaus and Joseph Boyer, <cite>Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming</cite> <li>Andreas Sch&auml;fer, John B. Heywood, Henry D. Jacoby and Ian A. Waitz, <cite>Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/978-0-262-51234-3">blurb</a>] <li>Stephen H. Schneider, <cite>Laboratory Earth: The Planetry Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose.</cite> <li>Moninder Singh Modgil, "Large Scale Weather Control Using Nuclear Reactors," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0210008">physics/0210008</a> [From the department of Reallly Bad Ideas] <li>William F. Ruddiman, <cite>Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/8014.html">Blurb, ch. 1</a>] <li>T. M. L. Wigley, "A Combined Mitigation/Geoengineering Approach to Climate Stabilization", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1131728"><cite>Science</cite> <strong>314</strong> (2006): 452--454</a> <li>Charles Wohlforth, <cite>The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change</cite> </ul>