A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology

Notes

1. A modern, well-illustrated account of climate change and its impacts is that of Gore, A. (2006). An Inconvenient Truth (New York: Rodale).

2. See, for instance, on floods in Europe, Palmer, T. N. and Raisanen, J. (2002), Nature, 415: 512–14, and, on global extreme droughts, Burke, E. J., Brown, S. J. and Christidis, N. (2006), Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7: 1113–25.

3. Myers, N. and Kent, J. (1995). Environmental Exodus: An Emergent Crisis in the Global Arena (Washington, D.C.: Climate Institute).

4. Climate Change 2001 in four volumes, published for the IPCC by Cambridge University Press, 2001. Also available on the IPCC website www.ipcc.ch. My book, Houghton, J. (2004). Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 3rd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), is strongly based on the IPCC reports. Further, a review I have recently written (Houghton, J. [2005]. Global Warming, Reports Progress in Physics, 68, pp. 1343–1403) provides a concise summary of the science and associated impacts.

5. <www.royalsoc.ac.uk/document.asp?id=3222>

6. For more details, see <www.gci.org.uk>

7. See, for instance, the Stern Review commissioned by UK government, published by Cambridge University Press, 2006.

8. Equivalent CO₂ (often written as CO₂e) includes the effect of increases from pre-industrial in the other greenhouse gases (CH₄, N₂0), etc.) – assumed here to be constant at their 1990 levels – expressed as an additional amount of CO₂ that would give the same radiative forcing; 450 ppm ...