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Main Title The global warming desk reference /
Author Johansen, Bruce E.
Publisher Greenwood Press,
Year Published 2002
OCLC Number 45756098
ISBN 0313316791; 9780313316791
Subjects Global warming ; Klimaänderung ; R echauffement de la terre
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EJBM  QC981.8.G56J64 2002 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 10/04/2002
Collation xvii, 353 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-343) and index.
Contents Notes
With global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, ·infrared forcing, · popularly known as the ·greenhouse effect, · 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 issue, describes recent findings and also considers the arguments of skeptics who doubt that global warming is a threat. Suggesting that the effects of global warming can be seen in the melting of glaciers and the dying of coral reefs, the work summarizes the potential impact on human health and on plants and animals worldwide. Concluding with possible solutions, the book contains one of the most comprehensive bibliographies on the subject. Includes information on agriculture and warming, air travel, arctic, automobile, boreal forests, carbon cycle, carbon dioxide, climate models, climatic forcings, deforestation, energy efficiency, fossil fuels, glaciers, greenhouse gases, James E. Hansen, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Thomas Karl, Kyoto conference, Navajo, El Nino, ocean circulation, oceans, Omaha (Nebraska), ozone depletion, Pacific Northwest, permafrost, polar bears, sea levels, skeptics, stratosphere, temperatures, thermohaline circulation, urban heat islands, Washington (District of Columbia), West Antarctic Ice Sheet, George M. Woodwell, etc.