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With global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, infrared forcing, popularly known as the greenhouse effect, has attracted worldwide concern. This book is a concise, college-level compendium of the research on global warming. It surveys the scientific consensus on the issue, describes recent findings, and also considers the arguments of skeptics who doubt that global warming is a threat. Suggesting that the effects of global warming can be seen in the melting of glaciers and the dying of coral reefs, the work summarizes the potential impact on human health and on plants and animals worldwide. Concluding with possible solutions, the book contains one of the most comprehensive bibliographies on the subject.
A growing field of study with a rapidly expanding literature, global warming should be of interest to everyone on Earth. Evidence of the greenhouse effect, due to emissions of carbon dioxide and other trace gases, has been accumulating for a quarter century. This book covers both research from scientific journals and newspaper and magazine reports of present-day evidence. The book will be a valuable resource for individuals concerned with the environment as well as for students of environmental sciences, meteorology, and earth sciences.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface: Diary of a Warm Winter
Introduction
A Sketch of the Problem
The General Consensus on Global Warming
Warmer is Better, Richer is Healthier: Global-Warming Skeptics
Icemelt: Glacial, Arctic, and Antarctic
Warming Seas
Flora and Fauna
Human Health
A Fact of Daily Life: Global Warming and Indigenous Peoples
Greenhouse Gases and the Weather: Now, and in the Year 2100
Possible Solutions
Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
BRUCE E. JOHANSEN is Robert T. Reilly Professor of Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha./e He has written on modern industrialism's toll on Native Americans in
Ecocide of Native America (1995) and has written on environmental themes in
The Nation,
The Progressive, and
The Washington Post.
