Is the Temperature Rising? : : The Uncertain Science of Global Warming / / S. George Philander.
Most of us have heard the dire predictions about global warming. Some experts insist that warming has already started, and they warn of such impending disasters as the sea level rising to flood coastal cities. Others, however, have issued loud counterclaims, assuring us that global warming is a myth...
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Philander, S. George, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Is the Temperature Rising? : The Uncertain Science of Global Warming / S. George Philander. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©1998 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART ONE -- 1. Between the Idea and the Reality -- 2. Is Our Planet Fragile or Robust? -- PART TWO -- 3. Light and Air -- 4. Why the Peak of a Mountain Is Cold -- 5. Capricious Clouds -- 6. The Climate Tapestry -- 7. Weather, the Music of Our Sphere -- 8. The Ocean in Motion -- 9. El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation -- PART THREE -- 10. The Paradox of the Faint Sun but Warm Earth -- 11. Why Summer Is Warmer than Winter -- 12. The Ozone Hole, a Cautionary Tale -- 13. Global Warming, Risky Business -- APPENDIXES -- APPENDIX 1 -- APPENDIX 2 -- APPENDIX 3 -- APPENDIX 4 -- APPENDIX 5 -- APPENDIX 6 -- APPENDIX 7 -- APPENDIX 8 -- APPENDIX 9 -- APPENDIX 10 -- APPENDIX 11 -- APPENDIX 12 -- APPENDIX 13 -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Most of us have heard the dire predictions about global warming. Some experts insist that warming has already started, and they warn of such impending disasters as the sea level rising to flood coastal cities. Others, however, have issued loud counterclaims, assuring us that global warming is a myth based on misleading data. How can we tell who is right, and how we should respond? And why is there no scientific consensus on a matter of such vital importance? George Philander addresses these questions in this book, as he guides the nonscientific reader through new ideas about the remarkable and intricate factors that determine the world's climate. In simple, nontechnical language, Philander describes how the interplay between familiar yet endlessly fascinating phenomena--winds and clouds, light and air, land and sea--maintains climates that permit a glorious diversity of fauna and flora to flourish on Earth. That interplay also creates such potent weather disrupters as El Niño and La Niña, translates modest fluctuations in sunlight into global climate changes as dramatic as the Ice Age, and determines the Earth's response to the gases we are discharging into the atmosphere, such as those that led to the ozone hole over Antarctica and those that are likely to cause global warming. In his discussion of these matters, Philander emphasizes that our planet is so complex that the scientific results will always have uncertainties. To continue to defer action on environmental problems, on the grounds that more accurate scientific results will soon be available, could lead to a crisis. To make wise decisions, it will help if the public is familiar with the geosciences, which explore the processes that make ours a habitable planet. The book is an excellent introduction to the basics of the Earth's climate and weather, and will be an important contribution to the debate about climate change and the relationship between scientific knowledge and public affairs. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Environmental sciences Philosophy. Global warming. Human ecology. SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691187440?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691187440 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691187440.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART ONE -- 1. Between the Idea and the Reality -- 2. Is Our Planet Fragile or Robust? -- PART TWO -- 3. Light and Air -- 4. Why the Peak of a Mountain Is Cold -- 5. Capricious Clouds -- 6. The Climate Tapestry -- 7. Weather, the Music of Our Sphere -- 8. The Ocean in Motion -- 9. El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation -- PART THREE -- 10. The Paradox of the Faint Sun but Warm Earth -- 11. Why Summer Is Warmer than Winter -- 12. The Ozone Hole, a Cautionary Tale -- 13. Global Warming, Risky Business -- APPENDIXES -- APPENDIX 1 -- APPENDIX 2 -- APPENDIX 3 -- APPENDIX 4 -- APPENDIX 5 -- APPENDIX 6 -- APPENDIX 7 -- APPENDIX 8 -- APPENDIX 9 -- APPENDIX 10 -- APPENDIX 11 -- APPENDIX 12 -- APPENDIX 13 -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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