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Global Change Interviews with Leading Climate Scientists /
The book consists of interviews with leading climate scientists. Experts on different aspects of the topic explain their own field and give their opinion on general questions concerning climate change. The interviews cover both fundamental research (climate modeling, global warming, sea level change...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Colección: | SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Understanding does not imply predictive power
- We always make models for something, not of something
- Time means are more predictable than the instantaneous state
- The large scale dynamics are reasonably well understood, un-certainty lies in the parametrization of small-scale processes
- It is the poor and the marginalized that are hit hardest by climate change
- When deciding about long-term strategies, irreversibility is a key point
- The Montreal Agreement is a good example of how to deal with a global environmental problem.