Global Warming - Myth or Reality? The Erring Ways of Climatology
To date, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects of global warming remain elusive. In Global Warming - Myth or Reality? . Marcel Leroux seeks to separate fact from fiction and lays out the scientific cause of the sizable sceptical scientific community that challenges the ac...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2005, 2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2005 |
| Series: | Environmental Sciences
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The subject, the players, and the principle basis
- History of the notion of global warming
- Conclusions of the IPCC (Working Group I)
- Science, media, politics...
- Greenhouse effect — water effect
- Causes of climate change
- Models and climate
- The general circulation of the atmosphere
- The lessons of the observation of real facts
- The observational facts: Past climates
- The observational facts: Present temperatures
- The observational facts: Weather, rainfall, and drought
- The observational facts: Climate and aerological units
- The North Atlantic aerological unit
- The North Pacific aerological unit
- The lessons of the observation of real facts in the aerological units: Conclusion
- The observational facts: Sea level and circulation
- General conclusion