Schneider (2009) "Science as a Contact Sport", Table of contents

• Stephen H. Schneider, 2009: Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate. Washington DC: National Geographic, 295 pp. ISBN 978-1-4262-0540-8.

Contents
Foreword
Introduction: The Global Playing Field
 - The present state of climate change awareness
Chapter 1: Smoke on the horizon
 - The beginnings of change
 - Climate science lights a fire
Chapter 2: Drawing up the battle lines
 - New ideas from general circulation models
 - Creating climate-oriented science from scratch
 - Spotlight on climate strategy
 - Forecasting probabilities, measuring the future
 - Science for policy
 - Early ozone battles
 - Cultural anthropology meets climatology
Chapter 3: Deep inside the battle to save earth's climate
 - The evolution of integrated assessment
 - Whole earth concerns
 - First U.S. hearings on climate and energy policy
 - Nuclear winter wars with Carl Sagan
Chapter 4: A fragile planet grows alarmed
 - Heat becomes hot news
 - The beginnings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
 - Moving forward
 - On the road to Rio
Chapter 5: The battle heats up and so does the world
 - The power of a word
 - Setting firm guidelines for uncertainty
 - The contentious Kyoto Protocol
 - Warling the talk
 - 1998: A very bad year
 - The IPCC Third Assessment Report
 - Consequences become harder to ignore
Chapter 6: Awareness dawns on planet earth
 - Battles in Brussels
 - A story with a happy ending
 - What prize?
Chapter 7: The media wars: The stories behind persistent distortion
 - Courtroom epistemology
 - The "double ethical bind" pitfall
 - Contrarians in the media
 - Lying without penalty
 - Responsible reporting and the journalist-scientist-citizen triangle
Chapter 8: Habitats for humanity and others
 - The human cost of climate change
 - What the bird-watchers know
 - A voice muzzled
Chapter 9: What should keep us awake at night
 - Can democracy survive complexity?
 - Senator for an hour?
 - Steps to making climate policy
 - - Adapt to the unavoidable.
 - - Performance standards.
 - - Incentives to invent our way out of the problem.
 - - Put a price on carbon.
 - - Geoengineering.
 - A word about tipping points
 - Targeting for the future
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index