The climate crisis : an introductory guide to climate change /

An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades. The history of the Earth's climate has been probed by drilling into polar ice sheets and sediment layers of the oceans' vast depths, and great advances have been made in computer modelling...

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Main Authors: Archer, David, 1960- (Author), Rahmstorf, Stefan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Retrospective : what we knew and when we knew it
  • Earth's energy budget
  • Climate change so far
  • Snow and ice
  • How the oceans are changing
  • The past is the key to the future
  • What the future holds
  • Impacts of climate change
  • Avoiding climate change
  • Climate policy.