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Author Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950-

Title The global warming desk reference / Bruce E. Johansen
Published Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 353 pages)
Contents 1. A sketch of the problem -- 2. The general consensus on global warming -- 3. Warmer is better, richer is healthier : global-warming skeptics -- 4. Icemelt : glacial, Arctic, and Antarctic -- 5. Warming seas -- 6. Flora and fauna -- 7. Human health -- 8. A fact of daily life : global warming and indigenous peoples -- 9. Greenhouse gases and the weather : now, and in the year 2100 -- 10. Possible solutions
Summary With global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, ʺinfrared forcing, ʺ popularly known as the ʺgreenhouse effect, ʺ has attracted worldwide concern. This book is a concise, college-level compendium of the research on global warming. It surveys the scientific consensus on the issue, describes recent findings and also considers the arguments of skeptics who doubt that global warming is a threat. Suggesting that the effects of global warming can be seen in the melting of glaciers and the dying of coral reefs, the work summarizes the potential impact on human health and on plants and animals worldwide. Concluding with possible solutions, the book contains one of the most comprehensive bibliographies on the subject
Includes information on agriculture and warming, air travel, arctic, automobile, boreal forests, carbon cycle, carbon dioxide, climate models, climatic forcings, deforestation, energy efficiency, fossil fuels, glaciers, greenhouse gases, James E. Hansen, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Thomas Karl, Kyoto conference, Navajo, El Nino, ocean circulation, oceans, Omaha (Nebraska), ozone depletion, Pacific Northwest, permafrost, polar bears, sea levels, skeptics, stratosphere, temperatures, thermohaline circulation, urban heat islands, Washington (District of Columbia), West Antarctic Ice Sheet, George M. Woodwell, etc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-343) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Global warming.
Global Warming
global warming.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
Global warming
Klimaänderung
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0313006970
9780313006975
9780313316791
0313316791