The Discovery of Global Warming is a book by physicist and historian Spencer R. Weart published in 2003; revised and updated edition, 2008. It traces the history of scientific discoveries that led to the current scientific opinion on climate change. It has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese and Korean.

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The Discovery of Global Warming

Author	Spencer R. Weart
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Harvard University Press (Cambridge, U.S.A.)
Publication date	2003
Media type	Print (Paperback) & online version
Pages	240 pp
ISBN	0-674-03189-X

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• Christie, Maureen (March–April 2004). "Hot Topic". American Scientist.
• Ehrlich, Robert (April 2004). "Heat exchange: the global warming debate mixes daunting complexity with high political stakes, a toxic brew that continues to test dispassionate science". Natural History.
• Maurellis, Ahilleas (May 2004). "Warming to the story of climate change". Physics World. 17 (5): 46. doi:10.1088/2058-7058/17/5/38.
• Schneider, Stephen H. (15 January 2004). "Warning of warming". Nature. 427 (6971): 197–8. Bibcode:2004Natur.427..197S. doi:10.1038/427197a.
• Revkin, Andrew C. (5 October 2003). "Living in the Greenhouse". New York Times.
• Crowley, Thomas J. (30 April 2004). "Something Warm, Something New". Science. 304 (5671): 685–6. doi:10.1126/science.1094781. S2CID 140638683.
• Oppenheimer, Michael (2004). "The Discovery of Global Warming. By Spencer R. Weart". Environmental History. 9 (2): 327–8. doi:10.2307/3986102. JSTOR 3986102.

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