Climate change : the science of global warming and our energy future / Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon.

• Prologue -- Weather and climate -- The climate system -- Climate change : separating facts from fears -- Thinking about the future in the face of uncertainty -- The story -- The atmosphere -- The world ocean -- Ocean-atmosphere interactions -- The carbon cycle and how it influences climate -- The concept of radiation balance, a scientific framework for thinking about climate change -- Radiative forcing, feedbacks, and some other characteristics of the climate system -- Learning from climate of the distant past -- Climate of the recent past and impacts on human history -- Observing the change -- Greenland, Antarctica, and sea level rise -- Climate models and the future -- Climate change risk in an unknowable future -- Energy and the future -- What we have learned -- Back of the envelope calculation : obtaining all of Earth's energy needs from -- The sun -- Epilogue.

Ämnesord

Klimatförändringar  (sao)

Global uppvärmning  (sao)

Climatic changes.  (LCSH)

Global warming.  (LCSH)

Global warming  (LCSH)

Climatic changes  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

QC981.8.C5 (LCC)

551.6 (DDC)

Ubaj (kssb/8 (machine generated))