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Michael Oppenheimer

Recent Publications

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

� 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

� Negative Learning

� Learning about Ozone Depletion , (with Crutzen, Paul J.), 2008

� 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 (with B. O'Neill, M. Webster, S. Agrawala). Science 317, no. 5844, pp. 1501-1506, 2007

"Carbon Trading over Taxes" (with B. Chameides), Science, 315, 1670, 2007.

� "On the Sensitivity of Radiative Forcing from Biomass Burning Aerosols and Ozone to Location of Emissions" (with V.Naik, D. L. Mauzerall, L. W. Horowitz, M.D. Schwarzkopf, V. Ramaswamy). Geophys. Res. Letters, 34, L03818, doi:10.1029/2006GL028149, 2007.

� "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.

� "A Manhattan Project" for Climate Change?," (with Chi-Jen Yang) Climatic Change, 80, 199-204, 10.1007/s10584-006-9202-7, 2007

� "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

� Net radiative forcing due to changes in regional emissions of tropospheric ozone precursors".

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

� “Avoiding Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference with the Climate System,” (with K. Keller, M. Hall, S.R. Kim, D. F. Bradford), Climatic Change, 73, 227-238, 2005.

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

� “The Influence of Climate on In-stream Removal of Nitrogen,” (with S.D. Donner and C. J. Kucharik), Geophys. Res. Letters, 31, L20509,doi:10.1029/2004GL020477, 2004.

� “The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and Long Term Climate Policy,” (with R. B. Alley), Climatic Change, 64, 1-10, 2004. (with kind permission of Springer Science and Business Media)

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

� “Global Warming and the Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,” Nature, 393, 325, 1998.

Other recent papers, reports and speeches:

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

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� 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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