Title:
What we know about climate change / Kerry Emanuel ; with a new foreword by Bob Inglis.
Author:
Emanuel, Kerry A., 1955- author.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Call Number:
QC903 .E43 2018
Abstract:
An updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action.The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere--most dramatically since the 1970s. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific consensus. In this updated edition of his authoritative book, MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel outlines the basic science of global warming and how the current consensus has emerged.
Edition:
Updated edition [2018 edition].
ISBN:
9780262535915
Series:
The MIT Press
MIT Press.
Physical Description:
x, 69 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
Preface -- The myth of natural stability -- Greenhouse physics -- Why the climate problem is difficult -- Determining humanity's influence -- The consequences -- Communicating climate science -- Our options -- The politics surrounding global climate change.
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