Astronomy and the Climate Crisis

• Main Author: Cooke, Antony (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Environment.; Climate change.; Planetology.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Climate Change.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

Climate change is one of the most hotly debated issues of today. Increasing global temperatures will impact all of us. There are more questions than answers, however, and sweeping statements on the subject made by public figures, often with little scientific understanding, only further confuses publ...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1: The Astronomical Connection
• Chapter 2: The Physics of a Crisis
• Chapter 3: Climate and Weather
• Chapter 4: The Physics of a Crisis
• Chapter 5: Short-Term Climate Variation
• Chapter 6: Gravitational Interactions of the Solar System
• Chapter 7: Understanding the Larger Solar Cycles
• Chapter 8: Climate Models
• Chapter 9: Interpretations of the Data
• Chapter 10: Global Warming on Other Worlds
• Chapter 11: Ice Ages and Long-Term Cycles
• Chapter 12: Cosmic Crisis
• Index.