The climate question : natural cycles, human impact, future outlook / Eelco J. Rohling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rohling, Eelco J., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--History.

Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.

Climatology--Forecasting.

Climatology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

In 2015, annual average atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels surpassed a level of 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in three million years. This has caused widespread concern among climate scientists, and not least among those that work on natural climate variability in prehistoric times, before humans. These people are known as 'past climate' or palaeoclimate researchers, and author Eelco J. Rohling is one of them. 'The Climate Question' offers a background to these concerns in straightforward terms, with examples, and is motivated by Rohling's personal experience in being intensely quizzed about whether modern change is not all just part of a natural cycle, whether nature will not simply resolve the issue for us, or whether it won't be just up to some novel engineering to settle things quickly.

Contents:

Introduction

Past climates : how we get our data

Energy balance of climate

Causes of climate change

Changes during the industrial age

Mother nature to the rescue?

Summary

Epilogue

Glossary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

0-19-091089-5

1-5231-3340-6

0-19-755991-3

0-19-091088-7