Climate Change - The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future

This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide a broad, informative introduction to the science that underlies our understanding of the climate system and the effects of human activity on the warming of our planet.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Prologue
Part I. The Climate System
1. The Atmosphere
2. The World Ocean
3. Ocean¿Atmosphere Interactions
4. The Carbon Cycle and How It Influences Climate
Part II. Climate Change and Its Drivers
5. The Concept of Radiation Balance, a Scientific Framework for Thinking About Climate Change
6. Radiative Forcing, Feedbacks, and Some Other Characteristics of the Climate System
7. Learning from the Climate of the Distant Past
Part III. Consequences of Climate Change
8. The Climate of the Recent Past and Impacts on Human History
9. Observing the Change
10. Greenland, Antarctica, and Sea-Level Rise
Part IV. The Future
11. Climate Models and the Future
12. Climate Change Risk in an Unknowable Future
13. Energy and the Future
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon

Zusammenfassung

This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide a broad, informative introduction to the science that underlies our understanding of the climate system and the effects of human activity on the warming of our planet.

Zusatztext

Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, this new second edition. . . is ideal and highly recommended as a climate change curriculum textbook.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Edmond (Department of Earth and Planetary Mathez, Edmond (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Mathez, Edmond/ Smerdon Mathez, Jason Smerdon
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780231172837
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17283-7
• Seiten: 520
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Energy Policy, Science / Environmental Science, Central / national / federal government policies, Energy resources, Central government policies, weather; Earth sciences; climatology