Climate

The sun's influence on climate

by Haigh, Joanna D., Cargill, P., (Peter)

fromPrinceton primers in climate

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"The Earth's climate system depends entirely on the Sun for its energy. Solar radiation warms the atmosphere and is fundamental to atmospheric composition, while the distribution of solar heating across the planet produces global wind patterns and contributes to the formation of…

Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation

by Coherent Digital (firm)

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MANAGING THE RISKS OF EXTREME EVENTS AND DISASTERS TO ADVANCE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION SPECIAL REPORT OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation Special Report of the Intergovernmental…

Climate change and global health

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"There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change will have profound and mostly harmful effects on human health. This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease …

This book entitled 'Poplars and Willows: Trees for Society and the Environment' contains twelve chapters. The poplars could equally well be willows, since they are clearly of a single, identified taxon (Chapter 2), selected originally from naturally occurring genetic resources (…

International human rights: the successor to international human rights in co…

by Alston, Philip, Goodman, Ryan

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International Human Rights is the definitive guide to this diverse area of the law. The carefully selected extracts from primary and secondary materials and illuminating author commentary provide the reader with a sophisticated and thought-provoking analysis of the study of huma…

The climate casino: risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming wo…

by Nordhaus, William D.

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Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the climate casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns the author. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the cas…

Global warming and climate change

by Tomecek, Steve

fromScience foundations (Chelsea House Publishers)

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This book examines the issues of global warming and climate change.

The weather of the future: heat waves, extreme storms, and other scenes from…

by Cullen, Heidi

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From one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes this work, a book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.

The climate crisis: an introductory guide to climate change

by Rahmstorf, Stefan, Archer, David

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"An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades. The history of the Earth's climate has been probed by drilling into polar ice sheets and sediment layers of the oceans' vast depths, and great advances have been made in comput…

The evolution of a nation: how geography and law shaped the American states

by Berkowitz, Daniel, Clay, Karen B.

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Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentiet…

The environment: science, issues, and solutions

by Wali, Mohan K., Evrendilek, Fatih, Fennessy, M. Siobhan

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Strongly grounded in the scientific method and evidence, "The Environment: Science, Issues, and Solutions" presents an organized, accessible, building block approach that introduces the principles of ecology. This book examines the effects of technology use and the unprecedented…

The explainer: from déjà vu to why the sky is blue, and other co…

by Conversation Media Group, Conversation (Website)

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Ever wondered how vaccines work, why whales strand themselves or if luck exists? The Explainer: From Déjà Vu to Why the Sky Is Blue, and Other Conundrums is a collection of the best of The Conversation's "The Explainer" and "Monday's Medical Myths" articles. The book answers que…

The age of sustainable development

by Sachs, Jeffrey, Pan, Ki-mun

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"Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide prob…

The two-mile time machine: ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future

by Alley, Richard B.

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"Richard Alley tells the history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. In the 1990s he and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three…