Eelco J Rohling

The Climate Question

Natural Cycles, Human Impact, Future Outlook

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses in straightforward terms why climate changes, how it has changed naturally before the industrial revolution made humans important, and how it has changed since then. It compares the scale and rapidity of variations in pre-industrial times with those since the industrial revolution, infers the extent of humanity's impacts, and looks at what these may lead to in the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 172mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780190910877
• ISBN-10: 0190910879
• Artikelnr.: 55310012

Autorenporträt

Eelco J. Rohling is based at the Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra (since 2013), and secondarily affiliated with the University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK (since 1994). His research focuses on ocean and climate change with emphasis on sea level, climate sensitivity, and past episodes of enhanced carbon burial in ocean sediments.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Past climates: How We Get Our Data
-Data from ice
-Data from land
-Data from the sea
-Data about sea-level changes
-Recap and outlook
3. Energy balance of climate
-The greenhouse gases
-A perspective from studies of past climates
-Recap and outlook
4. Causes of climate change
-Carbon-cycle changes
-Astronomical variability
-Large (super-)volcanic eruptions, and asteroid impacts
-Variability in the intensity of solar radiation
-Recap and outlook
5. Changes during the industrial age
-Direct effects
-Global responses and climate sensitivity
-Sea-level change
-Common reactions to the geological perspective
-Recap and outlook
6. Mother Nature to the rescue?
-Weathering, reforestation, and carbon burial
-Requirement for human intervention
-Human intervention in carbon removal
7. Summary
8. Epilogue
Glossary
Acknowledgements
References and notes