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"Everyone needs to understand how climate change will directly affect their lives and the lives of their family in the years to come. This is the first general audience book aimed at giving you and your family the knowledge you need to know to navigate your future"--
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Newly updated with the latest in climate science from COP26 and beyond, this third edition offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding the defining issue of our time: climate change.
In: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG Ser
Newly updated with the latest in climate science from COP26 and beyond, this third edition offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding the defining issue of our time: climate change
In: What Everyone Needs to Know Ser
"This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change." - New York MagazineThe essential primer on what will be the defining issue of our time, Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a clear-eyed overview of the science, conflicts, and implications of our warming planet
In: What everyone needs to know
Cover; Half title; Climate Change; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: Why you Need to Know About Climate Change; Acknowledgments; 1 Climate Science Basics; What is the greenhouse effect and how does it warm the Earth?; Why are scientists so certain the climate system is warming?; How does global warming increase sea levels and what has been observed to date?; Where does most of human-caused warming go?; What fraction of recent global warming is due to human causes versus natural causes?; How certain are climate scientists that humans are the primary cause of recent warning?
In: What everyone needs to know
Machine generated contents note: -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE: Why You Need To Know About Climate Change -- I. Climate Science Basics -- What is the greenhouse effect and how does it warm the Earth? -- Why are scientists so certain the climate system is warming? -- How does global warming increase sea levels and what has been observed to date? -- Where does most of human-caused warming go? -- What fraction of recent global warming is due to human causes vs. natural causes? -- How certain are climate scientists that humans are the primary cause of recent warning? -- How do scientists know that recent climate change is primarily caused by human activities? -- Why has the climate changed in the past, before there were human-caused greenhouse gas emissions? -- What are the climate system's amplifying feedbacks, which turn a moderate initial warming into a big ultimate warming? -- Is the current level of atmospheric CO2 concentration unprecedented in human history? -- Are recent climatic changes unprecedented? -- Has recent human-caused climate change been occurring faster or not as fast as scientists predicted? -- Is there a difference between global warming and climate change? -- What are the sources of the most important human-caused pollutants that drive global warming? -- How does deforestation contribute to warming? -- What is Global Warming Potential and why it is different for various greenhouse gases? -- Why does the rate of warming appear to vary from decade to decade? -- Has global warming slowed down or paused in recent years? -- Can we reach a point where emitting more CO2 into the air will not cause more climate change? -- Have we already crossed tipping points (points of no return) in the climate system? -- II. Extreme Weather and Climate Change -- What is the difference between weather and climate? -- Which extreme weather events are being made worse by climate change, and which are not?
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Oxford University Press
XXV, 318 Seiten
Second edition
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