ISN´T IT FUNNY WEATHER WE´RE HAVING!
WELL, ISN´T IT?

Reflections on What it Means to “Know” at the End of the Millennium
by
Mike Mc Dermott

~ References and Internet Resources and Links ~

References:

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Internet Resources

Adams, J. & Foote, R. Sudden Climate Change Throughout Human History.
http://dieoff.org/page127.htm

BBC. 1998. Antarctic Ice Shelf Begins Break-Up.
http://news1.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_79000/79668.stm

Calvin: W.H. 1998 (1) William Calvin's talk, Competing for Consciousness is posted on the Third Culture Homepage, with a graphical version at:
http://williamcalvin.com/1990s/1998TucsonConsciousness.htm

Calvin, W.H. 1998 (3). “The Great Climate Flip-flop.” Atlantic Monthly, January, 1998.
http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/issues/98jan/climate.htm

Cambridge, University of. Centre for Atmospheric Science. The Ozone Hole Tour, parts 1-4 at:
http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/part1.html

Chicken Little Homepage. Chicken Little Lives in Detroit.
http://www.chickenlittle.org/oped.html

Ekkehard. Chapter Three: Mathematical Magic.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Ekkehard_Friebe/fp_c3_mm.htm

Global Change 1998. Sudden Climate Shifts: Expressions of a Semi-stable System?
http://www.globalchange.org/sciall/98jul3.htm

Global Warming Part 2. Exploring Scientific Evidence and Evaluating Choices.
http://www.iitap.iastate.edu/gcp/gwmodule/content/overview.html

Institute of Public Affairs (Australian) 1999. Plenty of Good News on the Environment for Earth Day.
http://www.ipa.org.au/Media/PressReleases/IPApr210499.html

Jacoby, J. 1998. Scientists Don´t Agree on Global Warming.
http://www.bigeye.com/jj110598.htm

Jones, P.D., D.E. Parker, T.J. Osborn, and K.R. Briffa. 1999. Global and hemispheric temperature anomalies - land and marine instrumental records. In Trends: a Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A.; posted at:
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/temp/jonescru/jones.html

Kohlberg, L. Quoted text at: http://home.earthlink.net/~plantarian/kohlberg.html. There are many other relevant www links.

McDermott, M.D. 1998. Knowledge and the Knower: Complexity and the Self.
http://lightmind.com/Impermanence/Library/texts/mikem-00.html.

Mazza, P. & Roth, R. (1) 1999. Global Warming: The Scientific Evidence.
http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et0599/et0599s6.html

Milloy, S.J. 1998. Good News is No News on Planet Earth. The Washington Times 22.4.98.
http://www.junkscience.com/news2/watedit.htm

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Forcings and Chaos in Global Climate Change.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/intro/hansen.03/

NASA. Global Warming and Carbon Dioxide - Don´t Believe the Hype?
http://hpcc-k12.gsfc.nasa.gov/gessep/serverhome/trl/Inv4-8.abstract.html

Noble, M. Global Climate Chaos is Here. Now.
http://www.me3.org/issues/climate/nobleoped.html

Rodenburg, E. 1992. Eyeless in Gaia: Appendix A.
http://www.planetary.caltech.edu/%7Earid/society/eyeapp.html

Spencer, R.W. 1998. When Science Meets Politics. The Washington Times 3.9.98.
http://www.junkscience.com/sep98/spencer.htm

Stevens, W.K. 1997. From Under the Sea, Signs of Climate Jolts. New York Times, 18.11.97.
http://www.globalwarming.org/science/sea.htm

Torbert, W. William Rockwell Torbert's Homepage is at:
http://www2.bc.edu/~torbert

Tracinski, R.W. Global Warming vs. Science: Global Warming Campaign Subordinates Science to Politics.
http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/warming.html

Trenberth, K.E. 1997. “Global Warming: It´s Happening” in Natural Science Volume 1, Article 9, 1997.
http://www.egnatia.ee.auth.gr/mirrors/ns/articles/01-09/ns_ket.html

Weis, P. Crossroads: The Two Fates of our Biosphere.
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/9830

Whitaker, R. Tutorial giving “a brief overview of autopoietic theory”.
http://www. informatik.umu.se/~rwhit/Tutorial.html

World Climate Report. Desperate Measures to Support a Dying Paradigm.
http://www.nhes.com/current_issue/feature.html

Worldwatch, 1998. Vital Signs 1998. World is Economically Richer and Environmentally Poorer.
http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/pr98507.html



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