Global Warming — Myth or Reality? The Erring Ways of Climatology /

• Main Author: Leroux, Marcel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Environment.; Climatology.; Geophysics.; Climate change.; Environmental management.; Environmental sciences.; Air pollution.; Climate Change.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Physics.

To date, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects of global warming remain elusive. In Global Warming - Myth or Reality? . Marcel Leroux seeks to separate fact from fiction and lays out the scientific cause of the sizable sceptical scientific community that challenges the ac...

Table of Contents:

• The subject, the players, and the principle basis
• History of the notion of global warming
• Conclusions of the IPCC (Working Group I)
• Science, media, politics...
• Greenhouse effect — water effect
• Causes of climate change
• Models and climate
• The general circulation of the atmosphere
• The lessons of the observation of real facts
• The observational facts: Past climates
• The observational facts: Present temperatures
• The observational facts: Weather, rainfall, and drought
• The observational facts: Climate and aerological units
• The North Atlantic aerological unit
• The North Pacific aerological unit
• The lessons of the observation of real facts in the aerological units: Conclusion
• The observational facts: Sea level and circulation
• General conclusion.