Earth

The Earth Atmosphere

Images

  1. A sky image Credit: Michael Oates. His sky images are free for public use.
  2. The Aurora I think this must be the Aurora Borealis or Australis.
  3. Moonset over the Earth A NASA Space Shuttle image: source

Pages

  1. Alaska Science Forum Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  2. Atmospheric Composition
  3. Caldiera, Ken carbon cycle, energy, climate
  4. Greenhouse: How Do Greenhouses Work? by Sue Ann Bowling. Oddly enough the greenhouse effect is only a secondary cause of why greenhouses heat up.

Papers

These are just papers I've read and found useful. They are given in reverse time order.

  1. "What has posterity done for us? It's not the point Caldiera, K. 2002, Nature 420, 605. Earth scientist finds it hard to take economists seriously.
  2. "Advanced technology paths to global climate stability: Energy for a greenhouse planet" Hoffert, M. I., et al. 2002, Science, 298, 981. We still need lots of research and development to get the 30 TW the world would like in circa 2050.