Robert Henson - The Rough Guide to Climate Change

My deep gratitude goes to the experts who graciously provided interviews and text reviews for this book. Listed here with their affiliations at the time of their input, they are: Sim Aberson (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory); Lisa Alexander (Monash University); David Anderson and Connie Woodhouse (NOAA Paleoclimatology Program); Myles Allen, Ian Curtis, Tina Jardine, Lenny Smith and David Stainforth (Oxford University); Caspar Ammann, Aiguo Dai, James Done, Mary Hayden, Greg Holland, Jim Hurrell, Jeff Kiehl, Joanie Kleypas, Linda Mearns, Jerry Meehl, Susi Moser, Bette Otto-Bliesner, David Schneider, Claudia Tebaldi, Tom Wigley and Jeff Yin (NCAR); Vicki Arroyo, Elliot Diringer, Judi Greenwald, Katie Mandes, Namrata Rastogi, Truman Semans and John Woody (Pew Center on Global Climate Change); Mustafa Babiker (Arab Planning Institute); Richard Baker (UK Central Science Laboratory); Dan Becker (Sierra Club); Lance Bosart (University at Albany, State University of New York); Harold Brooks (NOAA Storm Prediction Center); Shui Bin (University of Maryland); Andy Challinor (University of Reading); John Christy (University of Alabama in Huntsville); Hugh Cobb (NOAA National Hurricane Center); Judith Curry (Georgia Institute of Technology); Lisa Dilling, Roger Pielke Jr. and Konrad Steffen (University of Colorado); Nikolai Dotzek (Deutsches Zentrum fr Luft- und Raumfahrt); David Easterling and Tom Karl (NOAA National Climatic Data Center); Kerry Emanuel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Ben Felzer (Marine Biological Laboratory); Jeff Fiedler (UCAR); Piers Forster (University of Leeds); Hayley Fowler (Newcastle University); Greg Franta and Joel Swisher (Rocky Mountain Institute); Jonathan Gregory (University of Reading/UK Met Office Hadley Centre); James Hansen and Cynthia Rosenzweig (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies); Eric Haxthausen (Environmental Defense); Brian Huber (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History); Tim Johns, Richard Jones and Jason Lowe (UK Met Office Hadley Centre); Phil Jones and Nathan Gillett (University of East Anglia); David Karoly (University of Oklahoma); David Keith (University of Calgary); Georg Kaser and Thomas Mlg (University of Innsbruck); Paul Kench (University of Auckland); Eric Klinenberg (New York University); Chuck Kutscher (US National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Beate Liepert (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory); Diana Liverman (University of Arizona); Glenn Milne (Durham University); Andy Parsons (UK Natural Environmental Research Council); Greg Pasternack (University of California, Davis); Rick Piltz (ClimateScienceWatch.org); John Church and James Risbey (CSIRO); Alan Robock (Rutgers University); Vladimir Romanovsky (University of Alaska); William Ruddiman (University of Virginia); Stephen Schneider (Stanford University); Peter Schultz (US Climate Change Science Program); Glenn Sheehan (Barrow Arctic Science Consortium); Scott Sheridan (Kent State University); Thomas Smith (NOAA); Susan Solomon (NOAA/IPCC); Eric Steig (University of Washington); Peter Stott (UK Met Office Hadley Centre); Jeremy Symons (National Wildlife Federation); David Thompson (Colorado State University); Lonnie Thompson (Ohio State University); Isabella Velicogna (University of California, Irvine); David Travis (University of WisconsinWhitewater); Chris Walker (Swiss Re); Chris West (UK Climate Impacts Programme); S. Joseph Wright (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute); Gary Yohe (Wesleyan University).

Special thanks go to the friends and colleagues who read large portions of the book and provided much-needed moral support along the way: Joe Barsugli, Brad Bradford, Andrew Freedman, Zhenya Gallon, Roger Heape, Theo Horesh, Matt Kelsch, Richard Ordway, John Perry, Catherine Shea, Wes Simmons, Stephan Sylvan and Ann Thurlow. And every writer should have an agent and supportive friend like Robert Shepard in her or his corner.

The enthusiasm of Rough Guides for this project smoothed the way on many occasions. Im grateful to Mark Ellingham and Andrew Lockett for championing the book and to Richard Trillo, Katy Ball and colleagues for getting the word out about it. The multitalented Duncan Clark provided superb editing, designing and illustration for the first and second editions and valuable consultation on the third. Tom Cabot skilfully edited text and updated the design for the third edition.

No one could ask for a better springboard for writing about climate change than working at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which operates the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Its impossible to adequately convey my appreciation for the opportunity Ive had as a writer and editor at UCAR and NCAR to learn about climate change from many dozens of scientists over more than two decades. This book couldnt have been written without two intervals of half-time leave made possible by Lucy Warner and Jack Fellows, plus the support of my colleagues in UCAR Communications. The opinions expressed herein are my own (as are any errors), and the content does not necessarily reflect the views of my UCAR and NCAR colleagues or the institution as a whole.