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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495883903321

Titolo

Global Climate Change and California : Potential Impacts and Responses / / Joseph B. Knox, Ann Foley Scheuring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2020]

©1991

ISBN

0-520-91201-2

0-585-03171-1

Edizione

[Reprint 2020]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

551.69794

Soggetti

Climatic changes - California

Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric - California

NON-CLASSIFIABLE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Global Climate Change: Impacts on California An Introduction and Overview -- 2. Greenhouse Gases: Changing the Global Climate -- 3. Our Changing Atmosphere: Trace Gases and the Greenhouse Effect -- 4. The Quest for Reliable Regional Scenarios of Climate Change -- 5. Global Climate Change and California's Water Resources -- 6. Global Climate Change and California Agriculture -- 7. Global Climate Change and California's Natural Ecosystems -- 8. Global Warming from an Energy Perspective -- 9. Studying the Human Dimensions of Global Climate Change -- 10. Epilogue -- CONTRIBUTORS