Global Climate Change : A Primer
ISBN: 9780822351092 | 0822351099
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Duke Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 6/9/2011
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Discusses the major elements of global change and the current debate.
An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engages in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written dozens of books and articles explaining coastal processes to lay readers, and he is a frequent and outspoken interviewee in the mainstream media. Here, the colorful scientist takes on climate change deniers in an outstanding and much-needed primer on the sc... MORE
An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engages in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written dozens of books and articles explaining coastal processes to lay readers, and he is a frequent and outspoken interviewee in the mainstream media. Here, the colorful scientist takes on climate change deniers in an outstanding and much-needed primer on the sc... MORE
| Preface | p. xi |
| Global Change and the Greenhouse Earth | p. 1 |
| The Impact of Global Change | p. 15 |
| Doubts, Uncertainties, and Qualms | p. 29 |
| The Manufacture of Dissent The Global Warming Denial Lobby | p. 42 |
| THe Future of Ice | p. 53 |
| Global Change in the Oceans | p. 69 |
| Disappearing Civilizations | p. 84 |
| Global Change in the Bsosphere | p. 98 | ... MORE
| Plan B Geoengineering to the Rescue? | p. 110 |
| About the Art | p. 123 |
| Bibliography | p. 131 |
| Index | p. 139 |
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