PDF texts for download
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First volume
of the 2007 United Nations expert "IPCC Four Report" (AR4) about
climate
change to download as PDF files, 996 pages in total.I have only
read the 35 page introductory FAQ's / overview of the first volume,
presenting the actual environmental understanding of the Earth in a
short, informative and not too difficult way, a small textbook in
itself. All four volumes from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can be downloaded from the IPCC mainsite |
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A
statement from a working group commissioned by the Pontifical Academy
of Sciences (2-4 April 2011) named "The Fate of Mountain Glaciers in
the Anthropocene" to be downloaded from the Vatican homepage "The Holy Sea" |
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Sept. 8 ,2011 report
from The University of Bremen, Germany based on data from NASA
satellite AQUA concluding with a 2011 historical low in Arctic ice
sheet cover since recordings from satellite started in the 1970's |
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Dansgaard, W., 2005, Frozen Annals: Greenland Ice Sheet Research. Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen. Humorous and catching memoir from a pioneer taking the reader through a history of ice core research from 1951 to 2003.About the importance of empty beer bottles in the first attempt to deduce past temperature from isotopes, a nuclear reactor in the middle of the Greenland icecap and much more.To be downloaded for free from University of Copenhagen home site |