The global warming desk reference / Bruce E. Johansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global warming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Preface: Diary of a Warm Winter vii

Introduction xiii

1 A Sketch of the Problem 1

2 The General Consensus on Global Warming 33

3 Warmer Is Better; Richer Is Healthier: Global-warming Skeptics 83

4 Icemelt: Glacial, Arctic, and Antarctic 123

5 Warming Seas 153

6 Flora and Fauna 183

7 Human Health 209

8 A Fact of Daily Life: Global Warming and Indigenous Peoples 221

9 Greenhouse Gases and the Weather: Now, and in the Year 2100 231

10 Possible Solutions 251

Postscript 275

Bibliography 281

Index 345.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-343) and index.

ISBN:

9798400657924

9786610868933

9781280868931

1280868937

9780313006975

0313006970

OCLC:

613375249