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Climate change : the science of global warming and our energy future / Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon.

By: Mathez, Edmond A [author.].
Contributor(s): Smerdon, Jason [author.].
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]Edition: Second edition.Description: xiii, 503 pages : color illustration, maps (some color) ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780231172837; 0231172834.Subject(s): Climatic changes | Global warming | Climatic changes | Global warming
Contents:
Prologue -- Weather and climate -- The climate system -- Climate change : separating facts from fears -- Thinking about the future in the face of uncertainty -- The story -- The atmosphere -- The world ocean -- Ocean-atmosphere interactions -- The carbon cycle and how it influences climate -- The concept of radiation balance, a scientific framework for thinking about climate change -- Radiative forcing, feedbacks, and some other characteristics of the climate system -- Learning from climate of the distant past -- Climate of the recent past and impacts on human history -- Observing the change -- Greenland, Antarctica, and sea- level rise -- Climate models and the future -- Climate change risk in an unknowable future -- Energy and the future -- What we have learned -- Back of the envelope calculation : obtaining all of Earth's energy needs from -- The sun -- Epilogue.
List(s) this item appears in: Climatic changes | New list Anil
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Non-fiction Main Collection QC 981.8 .C5 M378 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available c20037214

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-487) and index.

Prologue -- Weather and climate -- The climate system -- Climate change : separating facts from fears -- Thinking about the future in the face of uncertainty -- The story -- The atmosphere -- The world ocean -- Ocean-atmosphere interactions -- The carbon cycle and how it influences climate -- The concept of radiation balance, a scientific framework for thinking about climate change -- Radiative forcing, feedbacks, and some other characteristics of the climate system -- Learning from climate of the distant past -- Climate of the recent past and impacts on human history -- Observing the change -- Greenland, Antarctica, and sea- level rise -- Climate models and the future -- Climate change risk in an unknowable future -- Energy and the future -- What we have learned -- Back of the envelope calculation : obtaining all of Earth's energy needs from -- The sun -- Epilogue.

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