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1 online resource |
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Intro; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Foreword A More Persuasive Truth; Preface; Notes for the Reader; Special Thanks; Overview Climate Is Never "Settled," and Neither Is Science; Chapter 1 How I Came to Wonder About Climate Change; Living More Safely With Earthquakes; Living More Safely With Volcanic Eruptions; Living More Safely With Climate; Discovering a More Likely Cause of Global Warming; Chapter 2 Could Climate Change Science Be Mistaken?; Adapting to Change; What Is Science?; Is There a Role For Belief in Science? |
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Scientists and Politicians Have Worked Well TogetherWhere Am I Coming From?; Where Am I (and You) Going?; Chapter 3 Why Did Global Temperatures Stop Increasing in 1998?; Temperature Trends; The Stark Divergence Between Increasing Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Invariant Temperature; Rationalizing the Role of Natural Variations in Climate; The Ozone Depletion Theory of Global Warming; Chapter 4 Do We Really Understand Thermal Energy?; What Is Light?; What Is an Electromagnetic Field?; What Is Energy?; What Is Thermal Energy?; What Is Radiation?; What Is Temperature? |
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A Problem With Spectral Radiance As Used in Planck's LawEnergy Is Clearly Observed to Increase With Increasing Frequency of Oscillation; Why Can't Thermal Energy Propagate as Waves?; Why Can't Thermal Energy Propagate as Photons?; Potential Radiant Temperature and the Amplitude of Oscillation; Thermal Energy Is a Spectrum of Frequencies; Chapter 5 How Does the Atmosphere Protect Earth From Sun's "Hottest" Radiation?; How Does the Upper Atmosphere Absorb the Highest Energy Solar Radiation?; How Does Oxygen Absorb Solar Radiation? |
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How Does the Ozone Layer Protect Earth from Sun's "Hottest" Radiation?What Is the Primary Radiative Surface of the Earth System?; Chapter 6 How Do Minute Amounts of Ozone Control Climate?; What Is the Ozone-Oxygen Cycle?; How Is Ozone Distributed by Latitude and Season?; Depletion of Ozone by CFC Gases; The Polar Jet Stream and the Polar Vortex; Ground-Level Ozone; How Minute Amounts of Ozone Help Control Weather; Chapter 7 How Does Temperature Change With Ozone Depletion?; The Antarctic Ozone Hole; Arctic Amplification; Mid-Latitudes; Chapter 8 How Can Volcanoes Both Cool and Warm Earth? |
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How Do Explosive Volcanic Eruptions Cool Earth?How Does a Sequence of Large, Explosive, Volcanic Eruptions Increment the World Into an Ice Age?; How Do Effusive Volcanic Eruptions Warm Earth?; How Do the Properties of Explosive and Effusive Volcanic Eruptions Compare?; How Does Volcanism Deplete Ozone?; How Common Is Abrupt Climate Change?; Why Does Ozone Peak in the Year in Which Volcanoes Erupt?; Summary of How Volcanic Eruptions Cool and Warm Earth; Chapter 9 How Do Volcanic Eruptions Affect Weather?; What Is the Link Between Ozone and Weather? |
| Summary |
Science Is Never "Settled" Thousands of scientists are convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that recent global warming is being caused by emissions of greenhouse gases and that we must act immediately to reduce these emissions or else we may render Earth unlivable for our children and our grandchildren. Some even say "the science is settled." What Really Causes Global Warming examines a broad range of observations that show that greenhouse warming theory is not only misguided, but not physically possible. Recent warming was caused by ozone depletion due to emissions of human-manufactured gases. We solved that problem with the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer stopping the increase in global temperatures by 1998. Volcanoes also deplete ozone. The eruption of Br̀a̧rbunga volcano in central Iceland from August 2014 to February 2015-the largest effusive, basaltic, volcanic eruption since 1783-caused 2015 to be the hottest year on record. How can we adapt? "The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world."--Michael Crichton, 2003 |
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Climatic changes
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Global warming.
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Global environmental change.
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Ozone layer depletion.
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Climate Change
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Global Warming
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climate change.
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global warming.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Geophysics.
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Climatic changes
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Global environmental change
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Global warming
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Ozone layer depletion
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781630477998 |
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1630477990 |
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