David Archer, Stefan Rahmstorf

The Climate Crisis

An Introductory Guide to Climate Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A concise and clear overview of the essential scientific information on climate change for students and the general reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 192mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9780521407441
• ISBN-10: 0521407443
• Artikelnr.: 26551662

Autorenporträt

David Archer is a professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. Dr Archer has published over 70 scientific papers on a wide range of topics on the carbon cycle and its relation to global climate. He teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry, and geochemistry. His previous books include Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast (2006, Wiley-Blackwell) and The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate (2008, Princeton University Press). He is a regular contributor to the website realclimate.org.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Retrospective: what we knew and when we knew it
2. Earth's energy budget
3. Climate change so far
4. Snow and ice
5. How the oceans are changing
6. The past is the key to the future
7. What the future holds
8. Impacts of climate change
9. Avoiding climate change
10. Climate policy
References
Index.