Spencer R Weart
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1073683 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Spencer R Weart |
| NOMBRES | Spencer R |
| APELLIDO | Weart |
| FIRMA | WEART S R |
| AFILIACIONES | American Institute of Physics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8369-1991 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society
The fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society was held virtually in August 2020 with joint sponsorship from the Historical Astronomy Division, following the COVID-19-forced transformation of the original plan to hold the meeting in Spokane, Washington. The presenters had given papers at the first meeting in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1970, and addressed related fields from the vantage point o…
Solar Physics and the Climate Problem
When I delivered a paper on solar activity at the first SPD meeting, none of us thought it had anything to do with Earth's climate. Scientists of earlier generations had published correlations between solar variations and one or another terrestrial phenomenon, but by 1970 modern statistical analysis had driven out everyone but cranks. However, in 1976 Jack Eddy boldly nailed down the existence of a long period of low solar activity coinciding wit…
Cultures of Prediction in Atmospheric and Climate Science
Reviewed by: Cultures of Prediction in Atmospheric and Climate Science: Epistemic and Cultural Shifts in Computer-based Modelling and Simulation ed. by Matthias Heymann, Gabriele Gramelsberger, and Martin Mahony Spencer Weart (bio) Cultures of Prediction in Atmospheric and Climate Science: Epistemic and Cultural Shifts in Computer-based Modelling and Simulation. Edited by Matthias Heymann, Gabriele Gramelsberger, and Martin Mahony. London: Routle…
The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition
In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, far earlier than most historians. The thinkers belonging to the Anti-Enlightenment (a movem…
The Theater of Operations
Reviewed by: The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Joseph Masco Spencer Weart (bio) The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror. By Joseph Masco. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 218. $84.95/$23.95. On Tuesday, 11 September 2001, I was backpacking in the Colorado wilderness. I didn’t learn about the attacks until Saturday. Having spe…
The development of general circulation models of climate
The idea of anthropogenic global climate change in the 20th century
People had long speculated that human activities might affect a region's climate. But a developed conjecture that humanity might change the climate of the entire planet first appeared in 1896: a calculation that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion could gradually warm the globe. Scientists soon rejected the idea. Most people thought it incredible that climate could change globally except on a geological timescale, pushed by forces far stro…
The Discovery of Global Warming
"In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion - by way of unexpected twists and turns - was the story Spencer Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. Now he brings his award-winnin…
Spencer Weart on Depicting Global Warming
Peace among Republics
(2001). Peace among Republics. The International History Review: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 767-775
Remarks on the Ancient Evidence for Democratic Peace
Responding to Eric Robinson, it is argued that evidence from ancient Greece is inadequate to provide reliable counter-examples to the democratic peace proposition, provided that the proposition is correctly defined. For the best-documented case, the Athenian invasion of Syracuse, the preponderance of evidence does make Syracuse a well-established democracy like Athens. But there is contradictory evidence not addressed by Robinson. More important,…
The Political Discourse of Anarchy
Journal Article The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations. By Brian C. Schmidt. Albany, Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another. By Spencer R. Weart. New Haven and The United Nations and the United States. By Gary B. Ostrower. New York Get access David S. Patterson David S. Patterson U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
A Separate, Democratic Peace
Never Say Never
Never at War
Peace among Democratic and Oligarchic Republics
A list was compiled of virtually all significant military confrontations between republics throughout history. By including regimes only marginally republican, some forty cases were found from ancient Greece to the 1990s; about half of these had significant combat. Detailed historical investigation of each case reveals consistent patterns. A striking lack of wars between well-established democracies prevailed not only among modern states but also…
The Physicist as Mad Scientist
Interviews as Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics
Scientists in Power
Leo Szilard
Scientists in Power
Creation of the Universe
Peace among Democratic and Oligarchic Republics
A list was compiled of virtually all significant military confrontations between republics throughout history. By including regimes only marginally republican, some forty cases were found from ancient Greece to the 1990s; about half of these had significant combat. Detailed historical investigation of each case reveals consistent patterns. A striking lack of wars between well-established democracies prevailed not only among modern states but also…
Remarks on the Ancient Evidence for Democratic Peace
Responding to Eric Robinson, it is argued that evidence from ancient Greece is inadequate to provide reliable counter-examples to the democratic peace proposition, provided that the proposition is correctly defined. For the best-documented case, the Athenian invasion of Syracuse, the preponderance of evidence does make Syracuse a well-established democracy like Athens. But there is contradictory evidence not addressed by Robinson. More important,…
Never Say Never
The idea of anthropogenic global climate change in the 20th century
People had long speculated that human activities might affect a region's climate. But a developed conjecture that humanity might change the climate of the entire planet first appeared in 1896: a calculation that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion could gradually warm the globe. Scientists soon rejected the idea. Most people thought it incredible that climate could change globally except on a geological timescale, pushed by forces far stro…
Interviews as Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics
A Separate, Democratic Peace
Creation of the Universe
Scientists in Power
Leo Szilard
Scientists in Power
Interviews as Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics
The Physicist as Mad Scientist
Peace among Democratic and Oligarchic Republics
A list was compiled of virtually all significant military confrontations between republics throughout history. By including regimes only marginally republican, some forty cases were found from ancient Greece to the 1990s; about half of these had significant combat. Detailed historical investigation of each case reveals consistent patterns. A striking lack of wars between well-established democracies prevailed not only among modern states but also…
Never at War
A Separate, Democratic Peace
Never Say Never
The Political Discourse of Anarchy
Journal Article The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations. By Brian C. Schmidt. Albany, Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another. By Spencer R. Weart. New Haven and The United Nations and the United States. By Gary B. Ostrower. New York Get access David S. Patterson David S. Patterson U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Peace among Republics
(2001). Peace among Republics. The International History Review: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 767-775
Remarks on the Ancient Evidence for Democratic Peace
Responding to Eric Robinson, it is argued that evidence from ancient Greece is inadequate to provide reliable counter-examples to the democratic peace proposition, provided that the proposition is correctly defined. For the best-documented case, the Athenian invasion of Syracuse, the preponderance of evidence does make Syracuse a well-established democracy like Athens. But there is contradictory evidence not addressed by Robinson. More important,…
Spencer Weart on Depicting Global Warming
The Discovery of Global Warming
"In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion - by way of unexpected twists and turns - was the story Spencer Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. Now he brings his award-winnin…
The idea of anthropogenic global climate change in the 20th century
People had long speculated that human activities might affect a region's climate. But a developed conjecture that humanity might change the climate of the entire planet first appeared in 1896: a calculation that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion could gradually warm the globe. Scientists soon rejected the idea. Most people thought it incredible that climate could change globally except on a geological timescale, pushed by forces far stro…
The development of general circulation models of climate
The Theater of Operations
Reviewed by: The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Joseph Masco Spencer Weart (bio) The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror. By Joseph Masco. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 218. $84.95/$23.95. On Tuesday, 11 September 2001, I was backpacking in the Colorado wilderness. I didn’t learn about the attacks until Saturday. Having spe…
The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition
In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, far earlier than most historians. The thinkers belonging to the Anti-Enlightenment (a movem…
Cultures of Prediction in Atmospheric and Climate Science
Reviewed by: Cultures of Prediction in Atmospheric and Climate Science: Epistemic and Cultural Shifts in Computer-based Modelling and Simulation ed. by Matthias Heymann, Gabriele Gramelsberger, and Martin Mahony Spencer Weart (bio) Cultures of Prediction in Atmospheric and Climate Science: Epistemic and Cultural Shifts in Computer-based Modelling and Simulation. Edited by Matthias Heymann, Gabriele Gramelsberger, and Martin Mahony. London: Routle…
The Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society
The fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society was held virtually in August 2020 with joint sponsorship from the Historical Astronomy Division, following the COVID-19-forced transformation of the original plan to hold the meeting in Spokane, Washington. The presenters had given papers at the first meeting in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1970, and addressed related fields from the vantage point o…
Solar Physics and the Climate Problem
When I delivered a paper on solar activity at the first SPD meeting, none of us thought it had anything to do with Earth's climate. Scientists of earlier generations had published correlations between solar variations and one or another terrestrial phenomenon, but by 1970 modern statistical analysis had driven out everyone but cranks. However, in 1976 Jack Eddy boldly nailed down the existence of a long period of low solar activity coinciding wit…
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