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44. Pelejero et al., cited above.
45. A. Ridgwell and D. Schmidt, D., 2010: “Past Constraints on the Vulnerability of Marine Calcifiers to Massive Carbon Dioxide Release,” Nature Geoscience, 3, 196–200.
46. O. Hoegh-Guldberg, et al., 2007: “Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification,” Science, 318, 5857, 1737–42.
47. Pelejero et al., cited above.
48. M. Steinacher et al., 2009: “Imminent Ocean Acidification in the Arctic Projected with the NCAR Global Coupled Carbon Cycle–Climate Model,” Biogeosciences, 6, 515–33.
49. J. Veron et al., 2009: “The Coral Reef Crisis: The Critical Importance of <350 ppm CO2,” Marine Pollution Bulletin, 58, 10, 1428–36.
50. J. Rockström et al., 2009: “Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity,” Ecology and Society, 14, 2, 32.
51. Figures from Table 1, J. Guinotte and V. Fabry, 2008: “Ocean Acidification and Its Potential Effects on Marine Ecosystems,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1134, Issue “The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2008,” 320–42.
52. R. Schuiling and O. Tickell, 2010: “Olivine Against Climate Change and Ocean Acidification,” unpublished manuscript communicated by the authors.
53. For a detailed description see http://www.cquestrate.com/the-idea/detailed-description-of-the-idea.
54. M. Ridley, 2009: The Rational Optimist, Fourth Estate, p. 340.
55. http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/250180/global-warming-s-corrupt-science-patrick-j-michaels.
56. M. Ridley, 2010: “Who’s Afraid of Acid in the Ocean? Not Me,” The Times, November 4, 2010.
57. See “Response on Behalf of UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme” to Matt Ridley article, at http://www.oceanacidification.org.uk/PDF/Briefing note on Ridley article - 19 Nov.pdf.
58. http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/climate-zombie-caucus/.
59. http://dailycaller.firenetworks.com/001646/dailycaller.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/Tea-Party-Dec-of-Independence-22410.pdf.
60. http://www.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/reports/the_new_home_front_FINAL.pdf.
61. See, for example, some good points made in response in Rob Lyons’s piece on Spiked: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10116/.
9: OZONE LAYER
1. J. McNeill, 2000: Something New Under the Sun—An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century, Penguin Books, p. 211.
2. P. Crutzen, 1995 Nobel Lecture, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1995/crutzen-lecture.pdf.
3. J. Lovelock et al., 1973: “Halogenated Hydrocarbons in and over the Atlantic,” Nature, 241, 194–6; the mistake is acknowledged in Lovelock’s autobiography Homage to Gaia.
4. M. Molina and F. Rowland, 1974: “Stratospheric Sink for Chlorofluoromethanes: Chlorine Atom-Catalysed Destruction of Ozone,” Nature, 249, 5460, 810–12.
5. See Figure 1 in M. Chipperfield, 2009: “Atmospheric Science: Nitrous Oxide Delays Ozone Recovery,” Nature Geoscience, 2, 742–3.
6. See Annual Records table in NASA’s Ozone Hole Watch website: http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/meteorology/annual_data.html.
7. P. Newman et al., 2009: “What Would Have Happened to the Ozone Layer if Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) Had Not Been Regulated?,” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 9, 2113–28.
8. E. Parson, 2003: Protecting the Ozone Layer, Science and Strategy, Oxford University Press.
EPILOGUE: MANAGING THE PLANET
1. There is a picture of Yu Qingtai on http://beta.thehindu.com/news/article62882.ece?homepage=true. He is sometimes incorrectly identified as Su Wei, China’s lead negotiator at the Copenhagen talks.
2. http://www.america.gov/st/peacesec-english/2009/July/20090709153615esnamfuak0.3577082.html.
3. J. Rockström et al., 2009: “A Safe Operating Space for Humanity,” Nature, 461, 472–5.
4. Dr. Pieter Tans, NOAA/ESRL (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/) and Dr. Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/).
5. B. O’Neill et al., 2010: “Global Demographic Trends and Future Carbon Emissions,” PNAS, in press.
6. http://www.jonathonporritt.com/pages/population/.
7. http://www.jonathonporritt.com/pages/population/.