The Global Warming Desk Reference
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The Global Warming Desk Reference
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Author : Bruce Elliott Johansen
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2002
The Global Warming Desk Reference written by Bruce Elliott Johansen and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Science categories.
Includes information on agriculture and warming, air travel, arctic, automobile, boreal forests, carbon cycle, carbon dioxide, climate models, climatic forcings, deforestation, energy efficiency, fossil fuels, glaciers, greenhouse gases, James E. Hansen, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Thomas Karl, Kyoto conference, Navajo, El Nino, ocean circulation, oceans, Omaha (Nebraska), ozone depletion, Pacific Northwest, permafrost, polar bears, sea levels, skeptics, stratosphere, temperatures, thermohaline circulation, urban heat islands, Washington (District of Columbia), West Antarctic Ice Sheet, George M. Woodwell, etc.
Global Warming 101
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Author : Bruce E. Johansen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-06-30
Global Warming 101 written by Bruce E. Johansen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-30 with Science categories.
The accelerating pace of global warming is provoking anxiety that the Earth is reaching an ominous threshold, a point of no return. Within a decade or two, various feedbacks may take greenhouse warming past any human ability to contain or reverse it. Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly, fed by increasing fossil-fuel use world-wide, melting permafrost, slash-and-burn agriculture in Indonesia and Brazil, increasing wildfires, as well as rapid industrialization using dirty coal in China and India. Global warming may well become the most urgent problem the world faces during the 21st Century . Natural variations are no longer the major contribution (or forcing) in Earth's climate. Human contributions became the major factor about 1950. This book has been prepared as a reference for high-school students, but it also will be useful for anyone who wants a compact, plain-spoken basic guide to the science of global warming. Global Warming 101 begins with an examination of basic issues, followed by important controversies in the field. The book then describes scientific issues related to melting ice, rising seas, and effects on plants and animals, as well as human health. Global Warming 101 concludes with consideration of possible solutions. Global Warming 101 combines a survey of the science of global warming with reporting from around the world, from sinking Pacific islands and thawing Arctic permafrost, which indicate that significant global warming already has begun.
The Global Warming Desk Reference
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Author : Bruce E. Johansen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2001-10-30
The Global Warming Desk Reference written by Bruce E. Johansen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-30 with Science categories.
With global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, infrared forcing, popularly known as the greenhouse effect, has attracted worldwide concern. This book is a concise, college-level compendium of the research on global warming. It surveys the scientific consensus on the issue, describes recent findings, and also considers the arguments of skeptics who doubt that global warming is a threat. Suggesting that the effects of global warming can be seen in the melting of glaciers and the dying of coral reefs, the work summarizes the potential impact on human health and on plants and animals worldwide. Concluding with possible solutions, the book contains one of the most comprehensive bibliographies on the subject. A growing field of study with a rapidly expanding literature, global warming should be of interest to everyone on Earth. Evidence of the greenhouse effect, due to emissions of carbon dioxide and other trace gases, has been accumulating for a quarter century. This book covers both research from scientific journals and newspaper and magazine reports of present-day evidence. The book will be a valuable resource for individuals concerned with the environment as well as for students of environmental sciences, meteorology, and earth sciences.
Global Warming
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Author : Mark Maslin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-04-01
Global Warming written by Mark Maslin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-01 with Nature categories.
Climate Change 3 Volumes
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Author : Bruce E. Johansen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-09-15
Climate Change 3 Volumes written by Bruce E. Johansen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with Science categories.
This three-volume set presents entries and primary sources that will impress on readers that what we do—or don't do—today regarding climate change will dramatically influence what life on this planet will be like for untold numbers of generations. How are the behaviors of birds, butterflies, and other migratory animals connected to climate change? What does the term "thermal inertia" mean, and what does this geophysical effect have on predicting what the planet's future will be like? What is the context for the effects we are seeing on various forms of animal life, from migrating birds to polar bears to mosquitoes that transmit Zika and other diseases? Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science, Society, and Solutions combines entries describing Earth's variable climatic history, references to scientific literature, weather record data, and selected primary documents to present readers with a comprehensive account of global warming's effects worldwide. By examining verifiable, quantitative information such as the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and changes in the hydrological cycle, as well as clear patterns and trends of alternating droughts and deluges and wildfires, melting ice, and rising seas, readers will be able to understand why scientists are so concerned about the future of our climate. Researchers will benefit from detailed explanations of scientific topics such as thermal inertia, feedbacks, and tipping points; and receive invaluable context on the role of energy use in climate change, including automobiles and air travel. Readers will learn about the role of China in the current global climate and in the future; the widespread effects of climate change on agriculture; and how indigenous peoples' lives are being impacted, from drought and the Navajos to hunters' lives in the Arctic. The work concludes with thought-provoking debates regarding potential solutions, from wind power and solar power to geo-engineering.
Global Warming And The Climate Crisis
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Author : Bruce E. Johansen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-01-01
Global Warming And The Climate Crisis written by Bruce E. Johansen and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-01 with Political Science categories.
This textbook introduces readers to basic scientific principles of climate change. Based on extensive empirical evidence, it explains weather events that indicate climate change’s evolution and presents important topics connected to climate change, such as political controversies, climate policy, as well as Native American perspectives. Finally, it presents attempted solutions, including policy recommendations and technological proposals for necessary changes in our world. Providing a well-written and easy-to-follow overview of knowledge of science-based geophysical facts, including thermodynamics, the book puts a strong emphasis on why expeditious action on global warming is urgent. The book also explains why smart greenhouse-gas reduction strategies will ignite economic growth, generate new domestic jobs, protect public health, and strengthen energy security. Not assuming a scientific background on the part of the reader, Global Warming and the Climate Crisis: Science, Spirit, and Solutions offers an ideal supplemental reading in many types of courses in Earth sciences, climate policy, climate change sciences, as well as politics of climate change, from high school through undergraduate. General readers also will benefit from its treatment of this very important and timely issue.
The Encyclopedia Of Global Warming Science And Technology 2 Volumes
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Author : Bruce E. Johansen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-05-20
The Encyclopedia Of Global Warming Science And Technology 2 Volumes written by Bruce E. Johansen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-20 with Science categories.
In this two-volume encyclopedia for general readers and students of all levels, Bruce E. Johansen marshals scientific work on global warming into 300 articles presented in clear and understandable language. Comprehensive in scope and accessible to all reader levels, The Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science and Technology covers a vast range of topics, concepts, issues, processes, and scientists sifted and melded from the many scientific and technological fields. These include atmospheric chemistry, paleoclimatology, biogeography, oceanography, geophysics, glaciology, soil science, and more. Bruce E. Johansen digests the explosion of scientific work on global warming that has been published since 1980 and presents it in a set that is sure to be the indispensable standard reference work on the topic. The information here is of importance to just about everyone on the planet—for the findings of global warming science and technology should dictate the choices we make today to secure our common future. This encyclopedia will prove useful for many different types of professionals, inasmuch as global warming science informs public policy debates, applied science, and technology in such fields as energy generation, architecture, engineering, and agriculture.
Global Warming In The 21st Century Our Evolving Climate Crisis
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Author : Bruce Elliott Johansen
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2006
Global Warming In The 21st Century Our Evolving Climate Crisis written by Bruce Elliott Johansen and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Global warming categories.
The Global Warming Combat Manual
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Author : Bruce E. Johansen
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2008-07-30
The Global Warming Combat Manual written by Bruce E. Johansen and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-30 with Science categories.
This book describes the practical measures that people can take to reduce their carbon footprints to combat global warming."The Global Warming Combat Manual" describes the practical measures that can be taken within daily life to reduce carbon footprints. It also guides the reader on how to link their personal choices with the legal, political, economic, and technological changes that are being orchestrated on the world stage to deal with global warming. The emphasis throughout is on practical tips for how people in their everyday roles as citizens, homeowners, employees, commuters, tourists, sportsmen, business owners, or farmers can help combat global warming. This book gives readers the tools they need to calculate and put into action the most rational and ethical "green" choices. Discussing both the personal and the technological and public-policy dimensions, this book suggests a whole range of existing, emerging, and speculative solutions for global warming: ranging from the easy (keeping your tyres properly inflated), through the necessary and hard (changing the ways you transport, house, and feed yourself for maximum energy efficiency and minimum carbon footprint), the possible (switching over a large fraction of our carbon-based energy sector to alternative sectors based on biofuel, wind, solar, and geothermal power), the visionary (creating a bacterium that will consume CO2), and the improbable (deploying giant reflecting mirrors out in space), all the way to the weird and dangerous (pumping sulphur aerosols into the stratosphere)
Eco Hustle
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Author : Bruce E. Johansen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-04-14
Eco Hustle written by Bruce E. Johansen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-14 with Nature categories.
How many of our efforts to save the environment are effective? Learn how our system is simply masking the symptoms of global warming. Climate change is more than just a buzzword. It is a reality that society and industry have failed to deal with effectively. "Greenwashing," a term that author Bruce E. Johansen defines as the "environmental sleight of hand" performed by technology and advertising, has us convinced that certain "green" practices are sustainable. In his book, Johansen examines the sanctioned activities and practices commonly touted as environmentally responsible and points out their failings. He explains why the global climate change problem is more urgent than many people think, and provides real-world examples of companies that are taking measures with genuine benefits to the environment. Presenting information relevant to every inhabitant of earth and that environmentalists, climate scientists, and students and educators in environmental studies will find essential reading, this book brings questions about legislation and economics to the forefront and asks whether today's system can support a true effort at sustainable living. It presents honest—and what some readers may find surprising—answers to inquiries into what is really "good for the environment," such as why corn ethanol may be worse for the atmosphere than oil and why coal capture and sequestration may be the worst "green" idea yet.