Is the Temperature Rising? : : The Uncertain Science of Global Warming / / S. George Philander.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Philander, S. George,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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...

Table of Contents

• 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