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Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 9780470943410 | 0470943416
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. Date: 8/1/2011

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SummaryTable of Contents
Archer's Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast 2nd Edition, is the first real text to present the science and policy surrounding climate change at the right level. Accompanying videos, simulations and instructional support makes it easier to build a syllabus to improve and create new material on climate change. Archer's polished writing style makes the text entertaining while the improved pedagogy helps better understand key concepts, ideas and terms. This edition has been revised and reformulated with a new chapter template of short chapt... MORE
Online Models.

Preface.

1 Humankind and Climate.

Part I The Greenhouse Effect.

2 Blackbody Radiation.

3 The Layer Model.

4 Greenhouse Gases.

5 What Holds the Atmosphere Up?

6 Weather and Climate.

7 Feedbacks.

Part II The Carbon Cycle.

8 Carbon on Earth.

9 Fossil Fuels and Energy.

10 The Perturbed Carbon Cycle.

Part III The Forecast.

11 The Smoking Gun.

12 Potential Climate Impacts.

13 Decisions, Decisions.

Glossary.

Index.



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