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Michael Oppenheimer

Recent Publications

A selection of recent publications (see CV for full Bibliography):

� Probabilistic assessment of sea level during the Last Interglacial stage (RE Kopp et al), Nature 462, 963-868, doi:10.1038/nature08686ial stage

� Ice shelf morphology and the efficiency of basal melting (CM Little, A Gnanadesikan, M Oppenheimer), J. Geophysical Res. 114, C12007, doi:10.1029/2008JC005197

� A force to fight global warming (2009, W Turner et al), Nature 462, 278-9.

� Fixing a critical climate accounting error (2009, T SearchingerScience 326, 527–528, DOI: 10.1126/science.1178797 et al),

� Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "reasons for concern" ( with many authors), PNAS

� Climate Change and Plant Invasions: Potential Restoration Opportunities Ahead (2009 Bradley et al) Global Change Biology 15, 1511-1521, doi:10.1111/j. 1365-2486. 2008.01824.x

� Negative Learning (2008, M Oppenheimer et al), Climatic Change 89, 155-172 DOI 10.1007/s10584-008-9405-1

� Learning about Ozone Depletion , (2008, PJ Crutzen and M Oppenheimer), Climatic Change 89, 143-154 DOI 10.1007/s10584-008-9400-6atic

� Atmospheric stabilization and the timing of carbon mitigation (with B K. Mignone & R.H. Socolow & J.L. Sarmiento) Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2007, Climatic Change DOI 10.1007/s10584-007-9391-8

� The Limit of Consensus (2007, M Oppenheimer et al), Science 317, 1501-1506

� Carbon Trading over Taxes (2007, B Chameides and M Oppenheimer), Science 315, 1670)

� � A “Manhattan Project" for climate change? (2007, C-J Yang and M Oppenheimer), Climatic Change 80, 199-204, 10.1007/s10584-006-9202-7

� "Model-based Assessment of the Role of Human-induced Climate Change in the 2005 Caribbean Coral Bleaching Event" (with S.D. Donner and T.R. Knutson) (ABSTRACT) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0610122104, 2006.

� "Coral Reefs Reduce Tsunami impact in Model Simulations" . (with C. W. Kunkel and R.W. Hallberg ) J. Geophysical Res. 33, L23612,doi:10.1029/2006GL027892,2006.

� "Global Warming: The Psychology of Long Term Risk" (with A. Todorov) Climatic Change (2006) 77: 1-6 DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9086-6

� "Global assessment of coral bleaching and required rates of adaptation under climate change" (with S. Donner, W.J. Skirving, C.M. Little and O. Hoegh-Guldberg). Global Change Biology (2005) 11, 2251-2265, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.01073x

� “Article 2 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): Historical Origins, Recent Interpretations,” (with A. Petsonk).Climatic Change,73,195-226, 2005.

� “Ice Sheets, Global Warming, and Article 2 of the UNFCCC,” (with R. B. Alley), Climatic Change, 68, 257-267, 2005.

� “Dangerous Climate Impacts and the Kyoto Protocol,” (with Brian C. O’Neill), Science, 296, 1971-1972, 14 June 2002.

Other recent papers, reports and speeches:

� Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass (2009), National AcademSciences, Report of the Panel of Alternative Liquid Transportation Fuelsy of

� The Global Warming Challenge : Can Policy Catch up with the Science?

� Understanding the causes and implications of climate change (2009), in Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global DevelR Stewart, B Kingsbury, B Rudyk, eds, NYU press, a www.climatefinance.org.opment

� Minneapolis Westminster Town Hall Forum Speech, May 10, 2007

� "Future Sea Level Rise and the New Jersey Coast: Assessing Potential Impacts and Opportunities" (with M.J.P. Cooper and M. Beevers). November, 16, 2005.

� "Emissions Pathways to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change -- A Trans-Atlantic View," (with Carlo Jaeger), INTACT, SWP Berlin, June 2005.

� “Reinvigorating the Kyoto System, and Beyond: Maintaining the Fundamental Architecture, Meeting Long-Term Goals” (with Annie Petsonk), prepared for presentation at the Council on Foreign Relations, Sept. 20, 2004.

Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University

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