Assessing Climate Change Temperatures, Solar Radiation and Heat Balance /

• Main Author: Rapp, Donald (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2014.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Energy.; Physical geography.; Atmospheric sciences.; Climate change.; Earth Sciences.; Earth System Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Climate Change.; Earth Sciences, general.; Energy, general.

This updated and revised new edition of Assessing Climate Change deals with the full gamut of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change, uniquely providing a balanced and impartial discussion of this controversial subject. It shows that most of what is “known”about the Sun...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The climate debate
• 2. Variability of climate over the past few thousand years
• 3. Global scares
• 4. Earth temperatures over the past two hundred years
• 5. Carbon dioxide through the ages
• 6. The Earth's heat balance and the greenhouse effect
• 7. Energy and climate in the 21st century
• 8. Impacts of global warming
• 9. The Kyoto Protocol
• 10. Final remarks.