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Teaching about the environment, sustainability, and climate change (1975-2022)

This collection compiles papers related to the teaching about the physics of the environment, sustainability, and climate change published in the American Journal of Physics from 1975-2022

The American Journal of Physics and The Physics Teacher joined together in 2023 to publish special collections on the physics of the environment, sustainability, and climate change. Read this collection’s papers published in The Physics Teacher here and published in the American Journal of Physics here. Articles previously published on this topic in the American Journal of Physics are listed below and published in The Physics Teacher here.

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Long-term changes in the Earth's climate: Milankovitch cycles as an exercise in classical mechanics
R. C. T. Rainey
https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0013563
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Balloon-borne two-channel infrared spectral photometer for observation of atmospheric greenhouse effect by undergraduates
Gerard T. Blanchard; Fawaz A. Adesina; William Cole Belkwell; James R. Dyess; Victoria A. Frabbiele; Conor S. McGibboney; Ryan D. Rumsey
https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0009284
BOOK REVIEWS
Book review—Beyond Global Warming: How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0084647
BOOK REVIEWS
Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0062183
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Resource Letter GECC-2: The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change: The Intensified Greenhouse Effect
Stephen E. Schwartz
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5045577
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Resource Letter GECC-1: The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change: Earth's Natural Greenhouse Effect
Stephen E. Schwartz
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5045574
BOOK REVIEWS
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
Robert H. Socolow
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3485282
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Climate change in a shoebox: Right result, wrong physics
Paul Wagoner; Chunhua Liu; R. G. Tobin
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3322738
BOOK REVIEWS
Physics of Societal Issues: Calculations on National Security, Environment, and Energy
Philip L. Taylor
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3006314
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Resource Letter GW-2: Global Warming
Michael D. Mastrandrea; Stephen H. Schneider
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2894511
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Multistate flow devices for geophysical fluid dynamics and climate
J. A. Whitehead; W. Gregory Lawson; John Salzig
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1339278
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Physical aspects of the greenhouse effect and global warming
Robert S. Knox
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19109
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An introduction to global warming
John R. Barker; Marc H. Ross
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19108
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A derivation of the gradient (∇B) drift based on energy conservation
C. M. Cully; E. F. Donovan
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19147
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Effective thermal conduction model for estimating global warming
Anthony B. Wolbarst
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19143
AAPT POSITION STATEMENTS
Climate change and greenhouse gases
American Association of Physics Teachers
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19347
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Resource Letter: GW‐1: Global warming
John W. Firor
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17560
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‘‘Croesus and Cassandra: Policy response to global warming,’’ Carl Sagan’s acceptance speech for the 1990 Oersted Medal presented by the American Association of Physics Teachers, 23 January 1990
Carl Sagan
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16394
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Science and society test VII: Energy and environment
David W. Hafemeister
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.12736
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Energy and the environment
G. M. Crawley; S. K. Haynes
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.10034

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