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We are alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity. The climate disaster is one of our biggest challenges--but also our greatest source of hope. Once we are given the full picture, how can we not act? In this collection of essays and data, over one hundred experts--geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders--show us that we still have time...
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Studies the history and gives an analysis of extreme climate change on Earth. In order to provide a long-term perspective, this title briefly reviews some of the wild gyrations that occurred in the Earth's climate hundreds of millions of years ago: snowball Earth and hothouse Earth. It also summarizes data obtained from ice cores.
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"Icebergs are a prime example of an environmental phenomenon that brings together multiple disciplines in the polar sciences, from the physics of calving and melting to the geology of their solid deposits and sea floor interactions. Icebergs are also increasingly seen to play key roles in past and present climate change through addition of freshwater to the ocean, in providing invaluable information through their debris, in fertilising the polar oceans,...
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Offers an overview of the contributions geology has made to the study of climate change and the nuanced picture it presents of a climate that has gone through constant change over the course of millennia.
In the publicity surrounding global warming, climate scientists are usually the experts consulted by the media. We rarely hear from geologists, who for almost two hundred years have been studying the history of Earth's dramatic and repeated climate...
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"The cryosphere encompasses the Earth's snow and ice masses. It is a critical part of our planet's climate system, one that is especially at risk from climate change and global warming. The Cryosphere provides an essential introduction to the subject, written by one of the world's leading experts in Earth-system science. In this primer, glaciologist Shawn Marshall introduces readers to the cryosphere and the broader role it plays in our global climate...
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Earth's climate is changing - understanding how has become one of the biggest scientific projects ever undertaken. But the epic scale of this study has made it remote and difficult to understand; we're overwhelmed by a blizzard of information and no-one knows which bits to believe. A timely and intriguing take on an urgent issue, Climate Change by Numbers reveals why scientists are so certain they are right, where we have reached the limits of our...
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It's impossible to say that climate change is responsible for any individual storm or hurricane, but climate change is making these storms stronger. How much stronger? It turns out, Hurricane Harvey is the ideal test case to measure how a warming planet and warming oceans, amplify our worst storms.
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Earth's climate is changing - understanding how has become one of the biggest scientific projects ever undertaken. The program looks at the incredible methods that allowed scientists to arrive at precise figures, and uses stories from around the world to present this previously obscure field in an engrossing, accessible way. A timely and intriguing take on an urgent issue, Climate Change by Numbers reveals why scientists are so certain they are right,...
11) Polar Extremes
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Renowned paleontologist Kirk Johnson takes us on an epic adventure through time at the polar extremes of our planet. Following a trail of fossils found in all the wrong places-beech trees in Antarctica, redwoods and hippo-like mammals in the Arctic-NOVA uncovers the bizarre history of the poles, from miles-thick ice sheets to warm polar forests teeming with life.
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Use this resource to encourage students to judge whether or not climate change will impact people differently around the world. The impacts of climate change can be hard to see, but footage from the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, Africa, the Alps, Bangladesh, India and China shows it's all too much of a reality for the poorest and most vulnerable. The program also provides clear visual explanations of the processes that can cause climate change and gets...
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"Global Warming aims to make accessible the heavily technical literature to the non-science student, providing a bridge between the highly scientific and the popular non-academic texts. Placing global warming within the broader context of climate change, this textbook details the interacting components of the climatic system, reviewing the importance of changing carbon dioxide levels for the evolution of the Earth's atmosphere and climate. Utilizing...
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Presents a history of research into climatic changes. Warm winters, cool summers, freak tornadoes and furious hurricanes, the world is gradually becoming aware of a shift in global weather patterns, and not a little bit worried. Traces left by centuries of storms are writing a radically new history of our climate and posing a troublesome future. Scientists are busy trying to read the signs left by those storms to determine whether the changes the...
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Global warming and the resulting climate change is one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world community. In this book, expert, Sir John Houghton explores the scientific basis of global warming and the likely impacts of climate change on human society. He also addresses the action that could be taken by governments, by industry and by individuals to mitigate the effects.
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"Rising temperatures are affecting organisms in all of Earth's biomes, but the complexity of ecological responses to climate change has hampered the development of a conceptually unified treatment of them. In a remarkably comprehensive synthesis, this book presents past, ongoing, and future ecological responses to climate change in the context of two simplifying hypotheses, facilitation and interference, arguing that biotic interactions may be the...
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In order to understand how climate may vary in the future--whether as a result of human activities or of natural fluctuations--we must first understand how and why it has varied in the past. The period since A.D. 1500 is of particular interest, encompassing as it did not only the 'Little Ice Age', but also unusual solar activity and several exceptionally large explosive volcanic eruptions. Climate Since A.D. 1500 discusses the many diverse records...
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"This comprehensive textbook on the ocean-climate system will prove an ideal course and reference book for undergraduate and graduate students studying earth and environmental sciences, oceanography, meteorology and climatology. The book will also be useful for students and teachers of geography, physics, chemistry and biology."--Jacket.
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