The global warming desk reference / / Bruce E. Johansen

• Autore: Johansen Bruce E (Bruce Elliott), <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2002; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (373 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.738/74
• Soggetto topico: Global warming
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-343) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: With 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The global warming desk reference
• ISBN: 9798400657924; 9786610868933; 9781280868931; 1280868937; 9780313006975; 0313006970
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910965901303321
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