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A Geoethics Primer for Geoscientists

Part 6. References

6.1 References Cited

6.1.1 Geoscience Organizations, Departments, Agencies, and Licensure Boards Cited

6.1.2 Books, Journal Articles, Reports

6.2 Selected Bibliography

6.2.1 Books About Ethics in General

6.2.2 Books Used as Textbooks in Courses That Consider Science Ethics or Geoethics

6.2.3 Books, Special Publications, or Papers Related to Professionalism

6.2.4 Scientific Dishonesty and Misconduct

6.2.5 Introduction to Global Warming as a Critical Geoethics Issue

Listed in chronological order, oldest first

  1. Charney, J.G., Study Group Chairman, 1979, Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment: Washington DC, National Academies Press, https://doi.org/10.17226/12181, nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12181/carbon-dioxide-and-climate-a-scientific-assessment.
  2. Nierenberg, W.A., Committee Chairman, 1983, Changing Climate —Report of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee: Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, doi 10.17226/18714, nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18714/changing-climate-report-of-the-carbon-dioxide-assessment-committee.
  3. Weart, S.R., 2008, The Discovery of Global Warming [revised and expanded edition]: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 230 p., ISBN 978-0-674-03189-0. Also refer to the associated website, A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand the problem of climate change, history.aip.org/climate/index.htm (2003-2024), for a more complete account.
  4. Oreskes, N., and Conway, E.M., 2010, Merchants of doubt — How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming: New York, Bloomsbury Press, 355 p., ISBN 978-1-60819-394-3.
  5. Rich, N., 2018, New York Times Magazine article Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change: New York Times Magazine, accessible via https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html
  6. Mann, M., 2023, Our Fragile Moment, How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis: New York, Public Affairs Books of Hachette Book Group, 306 p., ISBN 978-1-5417-0289-9.
  7. Hansen, J.E., and 17 others, 2023, Global warming in the pipeline: Oxford Open Climate Change, v. 3, no. 1, kgad008, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgad008.
  8. Hansen, J.E., 2024, Climate Change at the International Court of Justice: International Court of Justice Proceedings in The Hague, accessible via https://mailchi.mp/caa/international-court-of-justice-proceedings-in-the-hague?e=8dbc336a13.

6.2.6 Collections of Papers or Essays About Science Ethics and Geoethics

6.2.7 Books on Human Dignity

6.2.8 Other Fundamental Ethics Resources

Listed in chronological order, oldest first