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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.

PAPERS
Long-term changes in the Earth's climate: Milankovitch cycles as an exercise in classical mechanics
Open Access
R. C. T. Rainey
PAPERS
Balloon-borne two-channel infrared spectral photometer for observation of atmospheric greenhouse effect by undergraduates
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Gerard T. Blanchard; Fawaz A. Adesina; William Cole Belkwell; James R. Dyess; Victoria A. Frabbiele; Conor S. McGibboney; Ryan D. Rumsey
BOOK REVIEWS
PAPERS
Resource Letter GECC-2: The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change: The
Intensified Greenhouse Effect
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Stephen E. Schwartz
PAPERS
Resource Letter GECC-1: The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change: Earth's Natural Greenhouse Effect
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Stephen E. Schwartz
BOOK REVIEWS
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
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Robert H. Socolow
PAPERS
Climate change in a shoebox: Right result, wrong physics
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Paul Wagoner; Chunhua Liu; R. G. Tobin
BOOK REVIEWS
Physics of Societal Issues: Calculations on National Security, Environment, and Energy
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Philip L. Taylor
PAPERS
Resource Letter GW-2: Global Warming
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Michael D. Mastrandrea; Stephen H. Schneider
PAPERS
Multistate flow devices for geophysical fluid dynamics and climate
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J. A. Whitehead; W. Gregory Lawson; John Salzig
PAPERS
Physical aspects of the greenhouse effect and global warming
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Robert S. Knox
PAPERS
A derivation of the gradient (∇B) drift based on energy conservation
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C. M. Cully; E. F. Donovan
PAPERS
Effective thermal conduction model for estimating global warming
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Anthony B. Wolbarst
AAPT POSITION STATEMENTS
Climate change and greenhouse gases
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American Association of Physics Teachers
Papers
‘‘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
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Carl Sagan
Papers
Science and society test VII: Energy and environment
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David W. Hafemeister