A Resource Guide to the Science of Abrupt Climate Change

For the best current thinking about sudden climate change, see the National Research Council's Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2002.

The story of how it came to be appreciated that drastic climate change can take place in a matter of years, not millennia, is summarized in "The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change," by Spencer Weart, Physics Today, August 2003.

Weart, head of the history section at the American Center of Physics in College Park, Md., maintains a Website devoted to the discovery of global warming at: http://www.aip.org/history/climate

For Andrew Marshall's influence and impact, see: The profile by Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Columbia Journalism School, that appeared in The New Yorker on 16 July 2001: http://www.comw.org/qdr/0107lemann.html

and the assessment by Jason Vest in American Prospect Online, 15 February 2001, which is quoted in the text of the May 2004 IEEE Spectrum story about "Clashing Climate Catastrophists."

The report to the Pentagon that is the subject of the May 2004 Spectrum story is called "An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implciations for United States National Security." By Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, October 2003.