The Complete Guide to Climate Change

The Complete Guide to Climate Change
Title The Complete Guide to Climate Change PDF eBook
Author Brian Dawson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 449
Release 2008-11-28
Genre Education
ISBN 1134021259

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An authoritative and easy to use A to Z guide to the key scientific, geographical and socio-political concepts central to the study of climate change. Taking you through the latest thinking on global warming, environmental damage and risk, this book has everything you will need to know perhaps the biggest issue facing mankind today.

The Rough Guide to Climate Change

The Rough Guide to Climate Change
Title The Rough Guide to Climate Change PDF eBook
Author Robert Henson
Publisher Rough Guides UK
Pages 418
Release 2011-05-02
Genre Science
ISBN 140538865X

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The Rough Guide to Climate Change gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. Cutting a swathe through scientific research and political debate, this completely updated 3rd edition lays out the facts and assesses the options-global and personal-for dealing with the threat of a warming world. The guide looks at the evolution of our atmosphere over the last 4.5 billion years and what computer simulations of climate change reveal about our past, present and future. This updated edition includes scientific findings that have emerged since the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as background on recent controversies and an updated politics section that reflects post-Copenhagen developments. Discover how rising temperatures and sea levels, plus changes to extreme weather patterns, are already affecting life around the world. The Rough Guide to Climate Change unravels how governments, scientists and engineers plan to tackle the problem and includes information on what you can do to help.

The No-nonsense Guide to Climate Change

The No-nonsense Guide to Climate Change
Title The No-nonsense Guide to Climate Change PDF eBook
Author Dinyar Godrej
Publisher Verso
Pages 148
Release 2001
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781859843352

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"The No Nonsense Guide to Climate Change" charts up-to-the-minute developments on climate change, explores the extent that the human race is responsible for the catastrophes and suggests what can be done to prevent them.

Climate Change

Climate Change
Title Climate Change PDF eBook
Author Jason Smerdon
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 341
Release 2009-04-25
Genre Science
ISBN 0231518188

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Climate Change is geared toward a variety of students and general readers who seek the real science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text introduces the basic science underlying both the natural progress of climate change and the effect of human activity on the deteriorating health of our planet. Noted expert and author Edmond A. Mathez synthesizes the work of leading scholars in climatology and related fields, and he concludes with an extensive chapter on energy production, anchoring this volume in economic and technological realities and suggesting ways to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Climate Change opens with the climate system fundamentals: the workings of the atmosphere and ocean, their chemical interactions via the carbon cycle, and the scientific framework for understanding climate change. Mathez then brings the climate of the past to bear on our present predicament, highlighting the importance of paleoclimatology in understanding the current climate system. Subsequent chapters explore the changes already occurring around us and their implications for the future. In a special feature, Jason E. Smerdon, associate research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, provides an innovative appendix for students.

The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change

The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change
Title The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change PDF eBook
Author Robert Henson
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2019
Genre Science
ISBN 9781944970390

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"This book is derived from material originally published as The rough guide to climate change"--Copyright page.

Preparing for Climate Change

Preparing for Climate Change
Title Preparing for Climate Change PDF eBook
Author Michael D. Mastrandrea
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 113
Release 2010-09-10
Genre Science
ISBN 0262289113

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Why we should prepare for climate change now by taking anticipatory action in vulnerable regions. Global momentum is building to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So far, so good. The less happy news is that Earth's temperatures will continue to rise for decades. And evidence shows that climbing temperatures are already having serious consequences for vulnerable people and regions through droughts, extreme weather, and melting glaciers. In this book, climate experts Michael Mastrandrea and Stephen Schneider argue that we need to start adapting to climate change, now. They write that these efforts should focus primarily on identifying the places and people most at risk and taking anticipatory action—from developing drought-resistant crops to building sea walls. The authors roundly reject the idea that reactive, unplanned adaptation will solve our problems—that species will migrate northward as climates warm, and farmers will shift to new crops and more hospitable locations. And they are highly critical of “geoengineering” schemes that are designed to cool the planet by such methods as injecting iron into oceans or exploding volcanoes. Mastrandrea and Schneider insist that smart adaptation will require a series of local and regional projects, many of them in the countries least able to pay for them and least responsible for the problem itself. Ensuring that we address the needs of these countries, while we work globally to reduce emissions over the long term, is our best chance to avert global disaster and to reduce the terrible, unfair burdens that are likely to accompany global warming.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming
Title The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming PDF eBook
Author Christopher C. Horner
Publisher Regnery Publishing
Pages 368
Release 2007-01-01
Genre Science
ISBN 1596985011

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An exposâe of some of the more controversial agendas behind global warming argues that poor-quality science and dishonest politics are contributing to the intentionally disporportionate and self-serving levels of fear.