Understanding Global Climate Change
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Understanding Global Climate Change

Modelling the Climatic System and Human Impacts

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Understanding Global Climate Change

Modelling the Climatic System and Human Impacts

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About This Book

Climate change, a familiar term today, is far more than just global warming due to atmospheric greenhouse gases including CO2. In order to understand the nature of climate change, it is necessary to consider the whole climatic system, its complexity, and the ways in which natural and anthropogenic activities act and influence that system and the environment. Over the past 20 years since the first edition of Understanding Global Climate Change was published, not only has the availability of climate-related data and computer modelling changed, but our perceptions of it and its impact have changed as well. Using a combination of ground data, satellite data, and human impacts, this second edition discusses the state of climate research today, on a global scale, and establishes a background for future discussions on climate change. This book is an essential reference text, relevant to any and all who study climate and climate change.

Features



  • Provides a thought-provoking and original approach to the science of climate.



  • Emphasises that there are many factors contributing to the causation of climate change.



  • Clarifies that while anthropogenic generation of carbon dioxide is important, it is only one of several human activities contributing to climate change.



  • Considers climate change responses needed to be undertaken by politicians and society at national and global levels.



  • Totally revised and updated with state-of-the-art satellite data and climate models currently in operation around the globe.

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780429515330
Edition
2
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
Civil Engineering
Index
Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Biography
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Chapter 1: The great global warming scare
  11. Chapter 2: The atmosphere
  12. Chapter 3: The hydrosphere
  13. Chapter 4: The biosphere, lithosphere, and cryosphere
  14. Chapter 5: Energy, the driver of the climate system
  15. Chapter 6: Climate data, analysis, modelling
  16. Chapter 7: The IPCC and its recommendations
  17. Chapter 8: Climate change: Energy resources–nuclear accidents
  18. References
  19. Index