Global Warming - Couverture souple

Drake, Frances

 
9780340653029: Global Warming
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0340653027 ISBN 13 : 9780340653029
Editeur : Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

This topical textbook provides a bridge between technical and popular texts on global warming within the broader context of climate change. Written at an introductory level, it explains the interacting components of this system: what the greenhouse effect is; and how scientists seek to predict climate change. It makes accessible the technical and heavy science literature to the 'non-science' student.



Global warming is one of the major environmental problems facing the world today. But it is an issue surrounded by great contention because it is based largely on scientific prediction and has yet to be proven. Opinion is divided regarding whether global warming will occur and, if it does, what the effects will be. In order to appreciate the uncertainties surrounding this issue, it is necessary to understand the workings of the climate system and the methods by which scientists seek to predict climate change.



'Global Warming' aims to make accessible the heavily technical literature to the non-science student, providing a bridge between the highly scientific and the popular non-academic texts. Placing global warming within the broader context of climate change, this textbook details the interacting components of the climatic system, reviewing the importance of changing carbon dioxide levels for the evolution of the Earth's atmosphere and climate. Utilising observed and modelled data, it presents the latest evidence for and against global warming whilst highlighting the difficulties involved with analysing both types of data and introducing areas of controversy within research. The book also addresses the important problem of making policy decisions for the future, based on the uncertain science of global warming.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l?auteur

FRANCES DRAKE is Senior Lecturer in Climatology and Meteorology at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0340653027
ISBN 13 
9780340653029
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
286
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Allemagne

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780340653012: Global Warming: The Science of Climate Change

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0340653019 ISBN 13 :  9780340653012
Editeur : Hodder Arnold, 2000
Couverture rigide