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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.
Sommario
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
Info autore
Edmond A. Mathez is curator emeritus in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History. A leading expositor of earth systems science, he co-curated the museum’s Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth, the 2008 exhibit Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New Energy Future, and the 2014 exhibit Nature’s Fury: The Science of Natural Disasters.
Jason E. Smerdon is a Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, an Earth Institute faculty member, and the co-director of the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development, all at Columbia University. He is a leading researcher on climate variability and change over the last 2,000 years.
Riassunto
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.
Testo aggiuntivo
Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, this new second edition. . . is ideal and highly recommended as a climate change curriculum textbook.
