LEADER 03707oam 2200649 a 450 001 9910965901303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9798400657924 010 $a9786610868933 010 $a9781280868931 010 $a1280868937 010 $a9780313006975 010 $a0313006970 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400657924 035 $a(CKB)111056485490564 035 $a(OCoLC)613375249 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10005596 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000163656 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11163326 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000163656 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10117845 035 $a(PQKB)10227331 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3000467 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10005596 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000467 035 $a(OCoLC)45756098 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400657924BC 035 $a(Perlego)4202411 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485490564 100 $a20010109e20022024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe global warming desk reference /$fBruce E. Johansen 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cGreenwood Press,$d2002. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (373 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780313316791 311 08$a0313316791 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [281]-343) and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: Preface: Diary of a Warm Winter vii -- Introduction xiii -- 1 A Sketch of the Problem 1 -- 2 The General Consensus on Global Warming 33 -- 3 Warmer Is Better; Richer Is Healthier: Global-warming Skeptics 83 -- 4 Icemelt: Glacial, Arctic, and Antarctic 123 -- 5 Warming Seas 153 -- 6 Flora and Fauna 183 -- 7 Human Health 209 -- 8 A Fact of Daily Life: Global Warming and Indigenous Peoples 221 -- 9 Greenhouse Gases and the Weather: Now, and in the Year 2100 231 -- 10 Possible Solutions 251 -- Postscript 275 -- Bibliography 281 -- Index 345. 330 8 $aWith global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, infrared forcing, popularly known as the greenhouse effect, has attracted worldwide concern. This book is a concise, college-level compendium of the research on global warming. It surveys the scientific consensus on the issue, describes recent findings, and also considers the arguments of skeptics who doubt that global warming is a threat. Suggesting that the effects of global warming can be seen in the melting of glaciers and the dying of coral reefs, the work summarizes the potential impact on human health and on plants and animals worldwide. Concluding with possible solutions, the book contains one of the most comprehensive bibliographies on the subject. A growing field of study with a rapidly expanding literature, global warming should be of interest to everyone on Earth. Evidence of the greenhouse effect, due to emissions of carbon dioxide and other trace gases, has been accumulating for a quarter century. This book covers both research from scientific journals and newspaper and magazine reports of present-day evidence. The book will be a valuable resource for individuals concerned with the environment as well as for students of environmental sciences, meteorology, and earth sciences. 606 $aGlobal warming 615 0$aGlobal warming. 676 $a363.738/74 700 $aJohansen$b Bruce E$g(Bruce Elliott),$f1950-$01079900 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965901303321 996 $aThe global warming desk reference$94340239 997 $aUNINA