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Climate change : the science, impacts and solutions / A. Barrie Pittock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pittock, A. Barrie, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub. ; London : Earthscan, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leading climate researcher Barrie Pittock revisits the effects that global warming is having on our planet.
- Contents:
- Climate change matters
- Learning from the past
- Projecting the future
- Uncertainty is inevitable, but risk is certain
- What climate changes are likely?
- Impacts : why be concerned?
- Adaptation : living with climate change
- Mitigation : limiting climate change
- Climate change in context
- The politics of greenhouse
- International concern and national interests
- Accepting the challenge.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-15614-8
- 9786613156143
- 0-643-09838-0
- OCLC:
- 519442345
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