详细书目
| 类型/形式: | Popular works |
|---|---|
| 附加的形体格式: | Online version: Henson, Robert, 1960- Rough guide to climate change. London : Rough Guides, 2006 (OCoLC)698423101 |
| 材料类型: | 互联网资源 |
| 文件类型: | 书, 互联网资源 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Robert Henson; Duncan Clark |
| ISBN: | 9781843537113 1843537117 |
| OCLC号码: | 68772464 |
| 注意: | "This first edition published September 2006"--P. facing t.p. |
| 奖励: | Shortlisted for Royal Society Prize for Science Books: General Prize 2007. |
| 描述: | x, 341 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 20 cm. |
| 内容: | pt. 1. The basics : global warming in a nutshell. Climate change : a primer : key questions and answers ; The greenhouse effect : how global warming works ; Who's responsible? : which countries, regions and activities are warming the world -- pt. 2. The symptoms : what's happening now, and what might happen in the future. Extreme heat : too hot to handle ; Floods & droughts : two sides of a catastrophic coin ; The big melt : climate change in overdrive ; Oceans : aproblem on the rise ; Hurricanes & other storms : rough waters ; Ecosystems & agriculture : the future of flora, fauna and farming -- pt. 3. The science : how we know what we know about climate change. Keeping track : taking the planet's temperature ; The long view : a walk through climate history ; Circuits of change : modelling the future climate -- pt. 4. Debates & solutions : from spats and spin to saving the planet. A heated debate : how activists, sceptics and industry have battled for column inches and the public mind ; The predicament : can we solve global warming? ; Political solutions : Kyoto and beyond ; Technological solutions : energy, engineering and efficiency ; What you can do : reducing your carbon footprint and lobbying for action -- pt. 5. Resources : climate change books and websites. |
| 丛书名: | Rough Guides reference guides. |
| 其他题名: | Climate change |
| 责任: | written by Robert Henson ; edited and designed by Duncan Clark. |
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摘要:
A guide to one of the most pressing problems facing humanity. It looks at visible symptoms of change from a warming planet; how global warming works; the evolution of our atmosphere over the last 4.5 billion years; what computer simulations of climate reveal about our past, present, and future; and more.
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