The global warming desk reference /
With global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, ʺinfrared forcing, ʺ popularly known as the ʺgreenhouse effect, ʺ 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 i...
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2002.
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| Շարք: | ABC-Clio ebook.
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Բովանդակություն:
- 1. A sketch of the problem
- 2. The general consensus on global warming
- 3. Warmer is better, richer is healthier : global-warming skeptics
- 4. Icemelt : glacial, Arctic, and Antarctic
- 5. Warming seas
- 6. Flora and fauna
- 7. Human health
- 8. A fact of daily life : global warming and indigenous peoples
- 9. Greenhouse gases and the weather : now, and in the year 2100
- 10. Possible solutions.