Umfang:
Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 816 p. 322 illus., 71 illus. in color, online resource)
Ausgabe:
3rd ed. 2014
ISBN:
9783319004556
Serie:
Springer Praxis Books
Inhalt:
tt This updated and revised new edition of Assessing Climate Change deals with the full gamut of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change, uniquely providing a balanced and impartial discussion of this controversial subject. It shows that most of what is “known” about the Sun, historical climates and projections for the future lacks foundation and leaves great room for doubt. Assessing Climate Change deals with the full gamut of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change, uniquely providing a balanced and impartial discussion of this controversial subject. It shows that most of what is “known” about the Sun, historical climates and projections for the future lacks foundation and leaves great room for doubt. deals with the full gamut of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change, uniquely providing a balanced and impartial discussion of this controversial subject. It shows that most of what is “known” about the Sun, historical climates and projections for the future lacks foundation and leaves great room for doubt. Assessing Climate Change (3rd Edition) examines the credibility of the global climate models which accuse greenhouse gases of causing the temperature rise of the 20th century, and provides a better understanding of the uncertainties regarding what might lie ahead in the future. Carefully considering the “evidence” brought forward by both alarmists and skeptics, this book: (3rd Edition) examines the credibilityof the global climate models which accuse greenhouse gases of causing the temperature rise of the 20th century, and provides a better understanding of the uncertainties regarding what might lie ahead in the future. Carefully considering the “evidence” brought forward by both alarmists and skeptics, this book: • has been brought completely up to date to end 2012; has been brought completely up to date to end 2012; • examines the measurements of near surface temperatures on Earth and how much we can rely on them; examines the measurements of near surface temperatures on Earth and how much we can rely on them; • includes hundreds of graphs showing the data; includes hundreds of graphs showing the data; • compares the current global warming trend with past climate fluctuations; compares the current global warming trend with past climate fluctuations; • provides a systematic review of climate change in nearly all of its aspects; provides ...
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1. The climate debate2. Variability of climate over the past few thousand years -- 3. Global scares -- 4. Earth temperatures over the past two hundred years -- 5. Carbon dioxide through the ages -- 6. The Earth's heat balance and the greenhouse effect -- 7. Energy and climate in the 21st century -- 8. Impacts of global warming -- 9. The Kyoto Protocol -- 10. Final remarks.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783319004549
Weitere Ausg.:
Druckausg. Rapp, Donald, 1934 - Assessing climate change Cham : Springer, 2014 ISBN 9783319004549
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geographie
,
Allgemeines
Schlagwort(e):
Klimaänderung
;
Erwärmung
;
Klimaänderung
;
Sonnenstrahlung
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-00455-6
URL:
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Mehr zum Autor:
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