Dessler & Parson (2019) The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: contents

• Andrew E. Dessler and Edward A. Parson, (2005, 2012) 2019: The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change, 3 ed.. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-63132-4 (paperback). DOI: 10.1017/9781316832158

Detailed table of contents

• Contents
• Preface to the Third Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• 1. Global Climate Change: A New Type of Environmental Problem
  • 1.1 The Climate-Change Controversy
  • 1.2 Climate and Climate Change: A Scientific Primer
    • 1.2.1 What is Climate?
    • 1.2.2 Electromagnetic Radiation
    • 1.2.3 The Earth's Energy Balance
    • 1.2.4 The Greenhouse Effect
    • 1.2.5 Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity
    • 1.2.6 Climate Models and Weather Models
    • 1.2.7 Increased Climate Forcing from Human Activities
    • [Climate Change and Ozone Depletion]
  • 1.3 Background on Climate-Change Policy
  • 1.4 Plan of the Book
• 2. Science, Politics, and Science in Politics
  • 2.1 Justifications for Action: Positive and Normative Statements
  • 2.2 How Science Works
    • [How Tough Is Peer Review Really?]
    • [Is this Really How Science Works?]
    • [An Example: The Discovery and Explanation of the Antarctic Ozone Hole]
  • 2.3 Politics and Policy Debates
  • 2.4 When Science and Politics Meet
  • 2.5 Limiting the Damage: The Role of Scientific Assessments
• 3. Human-Induced Climate Change: Present
  • 3.1 Is the Climate Changing?
    • 3.1.1 The Surface Thermometer Record
    • 3.1.2 Satellite Temperture Measurements
    • [What is El Niñ:o?]
    • 3.1.3 Ice
    • 3.1.4 Ocean Heat Content
    • 3.1.5 Sea Level
    • 3.1.6 Climate Proxies and Earlier Climate History
      • Tree Rings
      • Ice Cores
      • Corals
      • Ocean Sediments
      • Past Climate from Proxy Data: An Integrated Picture
    • 3.1.7 Summary: Is the Climate Changing?
  • 3.2 Are Human Activities Responsible for the Observed Changes?
    • 3.2.1 Tectonic Processes
    • 3.2.2 Orbital Variations
    • 3.2.3 Solar Variability
    • 3.2.4 Internal Variability
    • 3.2.5 Increases in Greenhouse Gases
    • 3.2.6 Summary: Are Human Activities Responsible for Recent Warming?
    • [How Else Do People Modify the Climate?]
  • 3.3 What Further Changes Are Likely? Predicting Twenty-First Century Climate Change
  • 3.4 What Will the Impacts of Climate Change Be?
  • 3.5 Contrary Claims
    • Claim 1: Global Warming Has Stopped / Is Not Occurring
    • Claim 2: Climate Has Always Changes, so Future Climate Change Is Nothing to Worry About
    • Claim 3: Climate Models Predict Too Much Warming: Future Warming Will be Much Less Than Predicted
  • 3.6 Conclusions
• 4. Climate-Change Policy: Impact, Assessments, and Responses
  • 4.1 Impacts and Adaptation
    • 4.1.1 Defining and Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change
    • 4.1.2 Responses to Enhance Adaptation
  • 4.2 Emissions and Mitigation Responses
    • 4.2.1 Emission Trends, Projections, and Underlying Factors
    • 4.2.2 Emissions Scenarios and Their Uses
    • 4.2.3 Technological Options to Reduce Emissions
    • 4.2.4 Policies to Promote Mitigation: National and Sub-National Jurisdictions
      • Market-Based Regulations
      • Presctiptive Regulation
      • Public Expenditures
      • Information, Education, and Voluntary Measures
    • 4.2.5 International Policy Responses
      • Form of National Commitments
      • Timing, Distribution, and Sequencing of Commitments
      • Implementation and Review
  • 4.3 The Third Response: Climate Engineering
  • 4.4 Choosing a Path: Balancing Benefits and Costs of Mitigation and Adaptation
    • 4.4.1 Integrated Assessment Models
    • 4.4.2 Mitigation Cost Estimates
    • 4.4.3 Climate Impacts and Integrated Cost Estimates
  • 4.5 Conclusion: Technology and Policy for a Climate-Safe Transition
• 5. Climate Policy and Politics in 2019, and a Path Forward
  • 5.1 Climate-Change Politics: Current Policies and Positions
    • 5.1.1 United States
    • 5.1.2 China
    • 5.1.3 European Union
    • 5.1.4 Other Major Economies
    • 5.1.4[sic.] Non-State Actors, Networks, and Partnerships
    • 5.1.5[sic.] Assessment of Status, 2019
  • 5.2 Climate-Change Politics: Remaining Arguments Against Action
    • 5.2.1 A Higher Class of Scientific Denial: Attacking Scientific Bodies and Institutions
    • 5.2.2 Attacks on Mitigation and Mitigation Policy
    • 5.2.3 Attacks on International Negotiations and Agreements
    • 5.2.4 Generic Uncertainty Arguments
  • 5.3 So What Should be Done? Recommendations for an Effective Response
    • 5.3.1 Strategic Principles for Effective Climate Action
      • Strong Action Is Increasingly Urgent, But Not as the Last Change to Avoid Catastrophe
      • Effective Climate Response Requires Effective Government Policy
      • Climate Progess Will Come in Many Steps, as Conditions Allow: Demanding Ideal Policies Risks Further Delay
      • Even Greatly Strengthened Mitigation and Adaptation May Not Reduce Risks Enough: Climate Engineering Needs Research and Study Because It Will be on the Agenda
      • Effective Climate Response Must Take Account of the Problem's Long Timescales
    • 5.3.2 Climate Action in National or Sub-National Jurisdictions
      • Jurisdictional-Level Response: Mitigation Targets
      • Jurisdictional-Level Response: Mitigation Policies and Actions
      • Jurisdiction-Level Mitigation: Economy-Wide Greenhouse-Gas Policies
      • Jurisdiction-Level Mitigation: Innovation Support
      • Jurisdiction-Level Mitigation: Sectoral Policies
      • Variation of Mitigation Opportunities Across Jurisdictions
      • Jurisdiction-Level Response: Adaptation
      • Jurisdiction-Level Response: Climate Engineering
    • 5.3.3 Strengthening Efforts Through Cross-Jurisdiction Collaboration
      • What Role for Current International Process?
      • Expanding Action Beyond Early Leaders
    • 5.3.4 Strategic Sequencing: Toward a Global Climate-Change Strategy
    • 5.3.5 Adjusting Responses Over Time
  • 5.4 Conclusion
• Glossary
• References
• Index

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