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articles for reading. The following articles are required reading for the course (in the order that we read them for the class) Hoffman, Paul F., and Schrag, Dan P. Snowball Earth, Scientific American, v.282, p. 68-75, January, 2000. [Profs. Paul Hoffman and Dan Schrag are in the Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Summary for Policymakers, in Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis (ed. by J. T. Houghton et al.), Cambridge University Press, 2001. Hansen, James, Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb, Scientific American, March 2004. (Use the same username+password as for the homework solutions to access this article: click here for the article). [Dr. Jim Hansen is a NASA scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. He is a leading authority on global warming and has testified before Congress on the issue of global warming. His other articles can be found here: Jim Hansen's publications. ] King, David A. Climate Change Science: Adapt, Mitigate, or Ignore? Science, 303, 176-177, 2004. [Prof. Sir David King is Chief Scientific Advisor to the U.K. government and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge] Houghton, John. Why should we be concerned? Chapter 8 in Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, Cambridge University Press, 1997. [Prof. Sir John Houghton has been co-chairman of the Scientific Assessment Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was formerly a Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Oxford and the Director General of the UK Meteorological Office (1983-1991).]
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