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GLOBAL WARMING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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"Our Evolving Climate Crisis", "Melting Ice and Warming Seas", "Plants and |
| By: |
Bruce E. Johansen |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£241.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0275985857 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780275985851 |
| Publisher: |
ABC-CLIO |
| Pub. date: |
30 May, 2006 |
| Pages: |
928 |
| Description: |
Provides a detailed review of the accumulating evidence for global warming, from the Arctic and Antarctic to the tropics, with special attention to processes that will accelerate warming as the century progresses. This three-volume work proposes detailed solutions, including a worldwide overhaul in energy sources. |
| Synopsis: |
Evidence of rising temperatures, melting ice, rising sea levels, and damage to flora and fauna on land and in the oceans has been accumulating for several decades. Scientific bodies around the world have traced this trend to increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, most of it attributable to the consumption of fossil fuels. Despite the evidence, political debate still rages over the existence of global warming. Global Warming in the 21st Century provides a detailed review of the accumulating evidence of global warming, from the Arctic and Antarctic to the tropics, focusing special attention on a number of processes that will accelerate warming as the century passes. Extensive warming also could endanger sea life through the devastation of phytoplankton populations at the base of the oceanic food chain. Bruce Johansen presents scientific theories on the subject that conflict with popular assumptions and explains that global warming is a slow-motion crisis in which the effects of greenhouse gas emissions are not evident in the atmosphere until roughly a half-century after they occur.Extensive reports from scientific literature explain how ozone depletion in the stratosphere and warming near the surface of the Earth are related. This three-volume work also proposes detailed solutions to global warming, including a worldwide overhaul in energy systems that will go beyond the initial diplomatic efforts of the Kyoto Protocol. |
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Illustrations (some col.), col. maps, ports. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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