Reading for week 1:

IPCC "Climate Change 2007: The Scientific Basis" Technical Summary, available at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-ts.pdf

IPCC "Climate Change 2007: The Scientific Basis" Summary for Policymakers, available at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm.pdf

For your information, the full IPCC 2007 reports are available at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm

+ paper on more recent correction to temperature observations: Thompson et al. (2008)

You might also find useful the following introduction to the greenhouse effect and discussion of radiative forcing (Chapter 7 in "Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry" by D. Jacob, Princeton U. Press, 1999)

Chapter 7 (sections 7.4+7.5) in IPCC report:

--> This pdf file contains the entire book.  For this week please read pages 79-130.

. Cambridge University Press.

OPTIONAL Reading on carbonate chemistry:  Emerson & Hedges (2007) Chap. 4

--> This pdf file contains the entire book.  For this week please read pages 130-156.

--> This pdf file contains the entire book.  For this week please read pages 156-164.