Four Degrees Of Global Warming
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Four Degrees Of Global Warming
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Author : Peter Christoff
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Four Degrees Of Global Warming written by Peter Christoff and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Business & Economics categories.
At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate scientists agree that current national emissions targets collectively will still not achieve this goal. Instead, the ‘ambition gap’ between climate science and climate policy is likely to lead to average global warming of around four degrees Celsius by or before 2100. If a ‘Four Degree World’ is the de facto goal of policy, we urgently need to understand what this world might look like. Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World outlines the expected consequences of this world for Australia and its region. Its contributors include many of Australia’s most eminent and internationally recognized climate scientists, climate policy makers and policy analysts. They provide an accessible, detailed, dramatic, and disturbing examination of the likely impacts of a Four Degree World on Australia’s social, economic and ecological systems. The book offers policy makers, politicians, students, and anyone interested climate change, access to the most recent research on potential Australian impacts of global warming, and possible responses.
Four Degrees More
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Author : Malcolm Rose
language : en
Publisher: Evans Brothers
Release Date : 2008
Four Degrees More written by Malcolm Rose and has been published by Evans Brothers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Environmentalism categories.
When Leyton Curry watches his house fall into the sea, there's nothing he can do. But then he realises global warming's to blame. The more he learns, the angrier he gets. If the sea heats up four degrees more the whole planet's in danger. So Leyton becomes the Cooler - an environmental activist determined to make people change the way they live. But how far will he go to save the planet? (From back cover).
Connectography
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Author : Parag Khanna
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Connectography written by Parag Khanna and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with Business & Economics categories.
From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers—and people—will win. Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty-first century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the world’s burgeoning megacities together. This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity. Connectivity, not geography, is our destiny. In Connectography, visionary strategist Parag Khanna travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Pakistan to Nigeria, and across the Arctic Circle and the South China Sea to explain the rapid and unprecedented changes affecting every part of the planet. He shows how militaries are deployed to protect supply chains as much as borders, and how nations are less at war over territory than engaged in tugs-of-war over pipelines, railways, shipping lanes, and Internet cables. The new arms race is to connect to the most markets—a race China is now winning, having launched a wave of infrastructure investments to unite Eurasia around its new Silk Roads. The United States can only regain ground by fusing with its neighbors into a super-continental North American Union of shared resources and prosperity. Connectography offers a unique and hopeful vision for the future. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars; ambitious transport corridors and power grids are unscrambling Africa’s fraught colonial borders; even the Arab world is evolving a more peaceful map as it builds resource and trade routes across its war-torn landscape. At the same time, thriving hubs such as Singapore and Dubai are injecting dynamism into young and heavily populated regions, cyber-communities empower commerce across vast distances, and the world’s ballooning financial assets are being wisely invested into building an inclusive global society. Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together. Praise for Connectography “Incredible . . . With the world rapidly changing and urbanizing, [Khanna’s] proposals might be the best way to confront a radically different future.”—The Washington Post “Clear and coherent . . . a well-researched account of how companies are weaving ever more complicated supply chains that pull the world together even as they squeeze out inefficiencies. . . . [He] has succeeded in demonstrating that the forces of globalization are winning.”—Adrian Woolridge, The Wall Street Journal “Bold . . . With an eye for vivid details, Khanna has . . . produced an engaging geopolitical travelogue.”—Foreign Affairs “For those who fear that the world is becoming too inward-looking, Connectography is a refreshing, optimistic vision.”—The Economist “Connectivity has become a basic human right, and gives everyone on the planet the opportunity to provide for their family and contribute to our shared future. Connectography charts the future of this connected world.”—Marc Andreessen, general partner, Andreessen Horowitz “Khanna’s scholarship and foresight are world-class. A must-read for the next president.”—Chuck Hagel, former U.S. secretary of defense This title has complex layouts that may take longer to download.
Climate Change
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Author : The Royal Society
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2014-02-26
Climate Change written by The Royal Society and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-26 with Science categories.
Climate Change: Evidence and Causes is a jointly produced publication of The US National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society. Written by a UK-US team of leading climate scientists and reviewed by climate scientists and others, the publication is intended as a brief, readable reference document for decision makers, policy makers, educators, and other individuals seeking authoritative information on the some of the questions that continue to be asked. Climate Change makes clear what is well-established and where understanding is still developing. It echoes and builds upon the long history of climate-related work from both national academies, as well as on the newest climate-change assessment from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It touches on current areas of active debate and ongoing research, such as the link between ocean heat content and the rate of warming.
Feeling The Heat
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Author : From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine,
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-06-22
Feeling The Heat written by From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine, and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-22 with Nature categories.
For an increasing number of people, global warming is not an academic and scientific debate, but a matter of survival. As the planet warms at a rate of four degrees Fahrenheit per century, violent storms are increasing in frequency, icebergs are melting, sea level is rising, species are losing their habitats, and temperature records are being broken. Feeling the Heat consists of chapter-length visits by well-known authors to actual world "hot" spots, where people are already coping day-to-day with the consequences of climactic disruption. The locations for the book were strategically chosen because each represents a separate and important global warming impact, such as rising tides, melting glaciers, evolving ecosystems and air pollution. Feeling the Heat takes global warming out of the realm of armchair speculation and arcane scientific debate, revealing the process of climate change to be ongoing, serious and immediate.
Climate Change And The Health Of Nations
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Author : Anthony J. McMichael
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Climate Change And The Health Of Nations written by Anthony J. McMichael and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Climate and civilization categories.
When we think of "climate change," we think of man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to the climate's vicissitudes. Anthony J. McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and a pioneer in the field of how human health relates to climate change, is the ideal person to tell this story. Climate Change and the Health of Nations shows how the natural environment has vast direct and indirect repercussions for human health and welfare. McMichael takes us on a tour of human history through the lens of major transformations in climate. From the very beginning of our species some five million years ago, human biology has evolved in response to cooling temperatures, new food sources, and changing geography. As societies began to form, they too adapted in relation to their environments, most notably with the development of agriculture eleven thousand years ago. Agricultural civilization was a Faustian bargain, however: the prosperity and comfort that an agrarian society provides relies on the assumption that the environment will largely remain stable. Indeed, for agriculture to succeed, environmental conditions must be just right, which McMichael refers to as the "Goldilocks phenomenon." Global warming is disrupting this balance, just as other climate-related upheavals have tested human societies throughout history. As McMichael shows, the break-up of the Roman Empire, the bubonic Plague of Justinian, and the mysterious collapse of Mayan civilization all have roots in climate change. Why devote so much analysis to the past, when the daunting future of climate change is already here? Because the story of mankind�s previous survival in the face of an unpredictable and unstable climate, and of the terrible toll that climate change can take, could not be more important as we face the realities of a warming planet. This sweeping magnum opus is not only a rigorous, innovative, and fascinating exploration of how the climate affects the human condition, but also an urgent call to recognize our species' utter reliance on the earth as it is.
Requiem For A Species
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Author : Clive Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2011
Requiem For A Species written by Clive Hamilton and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Nature categories.
Sometimes facing up to the truth is just too hard. There have been any number of urgent scientific reports in recent years emphasising just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act. But around the world only a few have truly faced up to the facts about global warming. This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, so that now it is too late. It is a book about the frailties of the human species: our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us between the forces that should have caused us to protect the earth, like our capacity to reason and our connection to nature, and our greed, materialism and alienation from nature, which, in the end, have won out. And it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures, and what we can do now.
Six Degrees
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Author : Mark Lynas
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2008
Six Degrees written by Mark Lynas and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Nature categories.
In astonishing and unflinching detail, a noted science journalist explains how Earth's climate will be impacted with every degree of increase in global warming--and what can be done about it now.
Global Warming
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Author : Debra A. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2008-09-22
Global Warming written by Debra A. Miller and has been published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-22 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
National Geographic reports that global warming is speeding up at an alarming rate. Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, and arctic ice is melting due to an increased level of greenhouse gases. Scientists predict that the Arctic may have an ice free summer by 2040. This engaging volume dissects the issues surrounding global warming and provides an overview of the topic. Its visually appealing presentation and compelling examples provide context. Readers will be inspired to think critically about global warming and how it impacts their peers and community.
What Warming
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Author : Arno Arrak
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2011-01-26
What Warming written by Arno Arrak and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-26 with Climatic changes categories.
This book questions the existence of anthropogenic global warming and exposes errors of global warming advocates. It uses satellite global temperature measurements to show that the late twentieth century warming simply did not exist. What satellites do see in the eighties and nineties is that world temperature simply oscillated around a median value by half a degree Celsius. Clearly temperature curves showing warming in this time slot are wrong and very likely are doctored. Three official temperature sources are involved and should be investigated. These oscillations detected by satellites turned out to be phases of the ENSO system consisting of alternate El Nino peaks and La Nina valleys. It was necessary to develop a new theory of how ENSO works to make sense of it. Real warming did not start until 1998 when a super El Nino arrived. In four years global temperature rose by a third of a degree and then stabilized again for an extended 'twenty-first century high.' This was the only real warming within the last thirty years. It amounts to half of what is commonly assigned to the entire twentieth century. But all IPCC modelers have predicted warming in the twenty-first century and have not gotten it. Despite this failure governments are still taking advice from them thanks to a strong and well-funded green lobby. The so-called "climate science" from IPCC is also entirely off about arctic warming. They still talk about carbon dioxide as its cause when this is physically impossible because the warming had a sudden start while carbon dioxide did not change at all. Warm currents are melting the arctic, not the greenhouse effect. The entire theory of greenhouse effect is now being questioned because Ferenc Miskolczi demonstrated that addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere for 61 years straight did not show up as an increase of its optical thickness in infrared where carbon dioxide absorbs. This may be the reason why I have not been able to detect any trace of AGW.