LEADER 04308nam 22007094a 450 001 9910824989303321 005 20230303214701.0 010 $a1-281-21671-2 010 $a9786611216719 010 $a3-540-76587-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-540-76587-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000400467 035 $a(EBL)371418 035 $a(OCoLC)233973676 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11241158 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10401593 035 $a(PQKB)11217914 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-540-76587-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC371418 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL371418 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10223474 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL121671 035 $a(PPN)12374296X 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000400467 100 $a20071001d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAssessing climate change $etemperatures, solar radiation, and heat balance /$fDonald Rapp 205 $a1st ed. 2008. 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cSpringer ;$aChichester, UK $cPraxis$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (413 p.) 225 1 $aSpringer-Praxis books in environmental sciences 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-540-76586-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [351]-369) and index. 327 $aHistorical variations in the Earth?s climate -- Temperatures in the past millennium -- Temperatures in the past century -- Variability of the Sun -- The Earth?s heat balance and the greenhouse effect -- CO2 production and climate change -- Impacts of global warming -- Global climate change and public policy -- Final remarks. 330 $aIn ASSESSING CLIMATE CHANGE Donald Rapp has investigated a large body of scientific data relevant to climate change, approaching each element with necessary (but neutral) scientific skepticism. The chapters of the book attempt to answer a number of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change. He begins by showing how the earth?s climate has varied in the past, discussing ice ages, the Holocene period since the end of the last ice age, particularly during the past 1000 years. He investigates the reliability of "proxies" for historical temperatures and assesses the hockey stick version of global temperatures for the past millennium. To do this effectively he looks carefully at how well near surface temperatures of land and ocean on earth have been monitored during the past 100 years or more, and looks at the utility and significance of a single global average temperature. Topics such as the variability of the Sun and the Earth?s heat balance are discussed in considerable detail. The author also investigates how the current global warming trend compares with past fluctuations in earth?s climate and what is the likelihood that the warming trend we are experiencing now is primarily just another in a series of natural climate fluctuations as opposed to a direct result of human activities. A key factor in understanding what may happen in the future is to examine the credibility of the global climate models which claim that greenhouse gasses produce most of the temperature rise of the 20th Century, and forecast much greater impacts in the century ahead. Finally, the book considers future global energy requirements, fossil fuel usage and carbon dioxide production, public policy relating to global warming, and agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol. 410 0$aSpringer-Praxis books in environmental sciences. 606 $aClimatic changes 606 $aEarth temperature 606 $aGlobal temperature changes 606 $aSolar radiation 606 $aGreenhouse gases$xEnvironmental aspects 615 0$aClimatic changes. 615 0$aEarth temperature. 615 0$aGlobal temperature changes. 615 0$aSolar radiation. 615 0$aGreenhouse gases$xEnvironmental aspects. 676 $a551.6 700 $aRapp$b Donald$f1934-$0302096 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824989303321 996 $aAssessing climate change$9226225 997 $aUNINA