Assessing climate change : temperatures, solar radiation, and heat balance /
"Assessing Climate Change attempts to answer a number of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change, uniquely providing a balanced and impartial discussion of this controversial subject. It shows how the Earth's climate has varied in the past, particularly during...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York : Chichester, UK :
Springer ; Praxis,
©2008.
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Colección: | Springer-Praxis books in environmental sciences.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Historical variations in the Earth's climate
- Temperatures in the past millennium
- Temperatures in the past century
- Variability of the Sun
- The Earth's heat balance and the greenhouse effect
- CO2 production and climate change
- Impacts of global warming
- Global climate change and public policy
- Final remarks.