Global Warming 101

Author : Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822035341288

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Global Warming 101 by Bruce E. Johansen Pdf

Global Warming 101 begins with an examination of basic issues, followed by important controversies in the field. The book then describes scientific issues related to melting ice, rising seas, and effects on plants and animals, as well as human health. Global Warming 101 concludes with consideration of possible solutions. --from publisher description.

Author : Madhu Singh Sirohi,Sah Snigdha
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788179932049

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Green Genius's 101 Questions and Answers by Madhu Singh Sirohi,Sah Snigdha Pdf

The climate of the earth has changed many times before in the planet's 4.5 billion-year-old history. But today, its temperature is rising faster than ever before, driving many life forms to extinction. And scientists believe that this time it is humans who are to blame. Increase your green quotient and learn the answers to some less frequently asked questions on global warming. Join Green Genius as he takes you on a journey to discover how to save the earth.

Author : Guy Dauncey,Patrick Mazza
Publisher : Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 0865714215

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Stormy Weather by Guy Dauncey,Patrick Mazza Pdf

Stormy Weather deals head-on with our most urgent environmental challenge yet, and is the only book to put simple, effective solutions to global warming in the hands of ordinary citizens, communities, businesses, power utilities, state governments, and national leaders.In a clear style, Stormy Weather explains why the planet has reached this crisis and how scientists predict "runaway" climate change will affect the Earth and our lives. The solutions to global warming revolve around 12 core methods of reducing our use of fossil fuels and filling our energy needs with solar, wind, tidal, and bio fuels. Each user-friendly solution is organized on two facing pages with a description, illustrations, quotations, resources, and a detailed "how-to" section. Solutions are grouped by social sector-Individuals; Citizen Groups; Towns and Cities; State Government; Power Utilities; Businesses; Oil, Coal & Gas Corporations; Automobile Corporations; National Governments; and Developing Nations-breaking-up these vital planet-saving tasks into manageable activities for both individuals and larger organizations.

Author : Snigdha Sah
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788179931981

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101 Facts by Snigdha Sah Pdf

The temperature of the earth is rising fast. This factbook is full of information on the phenomenon of climate change and how it affects us, and the ways—big and small—by which we can protect the earth. Discover how you can be a good citizen of the earth!

Author : Guy Dauncey
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0613920929

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Stormy Weather by Guy Dauncey Pdf

In the '60s, Silent Spring forced us to pay attention to the problem with pesticides. The '70s galvanized the nation to conserve. In the '90s our communities came together to "reduce, reuse, and recycle." And now, the first decade of the new millennium will focus our attention on our most urgent environmental challenge yet: global warming and the potential for irreversible climate change. In a clear and understandable style, Stormy Weather explains why we and the planet have reached this overheated situation and how scientists predict "runaway" climate change will affect the Earth and our lives. The solutions to global warming revolve around 12 core methods of reducing our use of fossil fuels and filling our energy needs with solar, wind, tidal, and bio fuels. Each user-friendly solution is organized on two facing pages with a description, illustrations, quotations, resources, and a detailed "how-to" section. Solutions are grouped by social sector -- Individuals, Citizen Groups, Towns and Cities, State Government, Power Utilities, Businesses, Oil, Coal & Gas Corporations, Automobile Corporations, National Governments, and Developing Nations -- breaking up these vital planet-saving tasks into manageable activities for both individuals and larger organizations. From riding your bike to the office to developing sustainable transportation infrastructures, and from launching a tree planting initiative in your community to negotiating a global forests protection treaty, this critical book will help anyone and everyone -- on a small or grand scale -- to participate in cooling our planet's troubled atmosphere.

Author : Snigdha Shah
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788179931424

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Save Planet Earth by Snigdha Shah Pdf

The earth is getting hotter with every passing year and you have probably been wondering why. 101 Q and A on Climate Change tells you everything you wanted to know about global warming. It reveals the natural and man-made causes for the change in climate, their impact on habitat, and efforts at conservation. Q. What is acid rain? Q. How do coral reefs reduce global warming? Q. Over which continent is the ozone hole found? Get answers to these and some less frequently asked questions on climate change so that you can help save the earth!

Author : Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780313346910

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Global Warming 101 by Bruce E. Johansen Pdf

The accelerating pace of global warming is provoking anxiety that the Earth is reaching an ominous threshold, a point of no return. Within a decade or two, various feedbacks may take greenhouse warming past any human ability to contain or reverse it. Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly, fed by increasing fossil-fuel use world-wide, melting permafrost, slash-and-burn agriculture in Indonesia and Brazil, increasing wildfires, as well as rapid industrialization using dirty coal in China and India. Global warming may well become the most urgent problem the world faces during the 21st Century . Natural variations are no longer the major contribution (or forcing) in Earth's climate. Human contributions became the major factor about 1950. This book has been prepared as a reference for high-school students, but it also will be useful for anyone who wants a compact, plain-spoken basic guide to the science of global warming. Global Warming 101 begins with an examination of basic issues, followed by important controversies in the field. The book then describes scientific issues related to melting ice, rising seas, and effects on plants and animals, as well as human health. Global Warming 101 concludes with consideration of possible solutions. Global Warming 101 combines a survey of the science of global warming with reporting from around the world, from sinking Pacific islands and thawing Arctic permafrost, which indicate that significant global warming already has begun.

Author : Mark Maslin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1417655216

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Global Warming by Mark Maslin Pdf

Author : Andy Reisinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1877347345

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Climate Change 101 by Andy Reisinger Pdf

Climate change is widely recognised as the most important issue now facing humanity. Proposals to reduce emissions or to adapt proactively to future climate changes often result in intense public debate about the urgency, feasibility, and cost, as well as the appropriate balance, of responses to climate change. A better and much broader understanding of the causes and effects of climate change, together with the options for mitigation and adaptation at the global scale, is critical for such societal discussions to be fruitful. Climate Change 101 - An Educational Resource provides a clear, succinct, and measured summary of our current knowledge of climate change, its potential impacts, and the scope for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to inevitable changes. Climate Change 101 draws its substance mostly from the findings contained in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But it also highlights more recent scientific developments and illuminates the key issues that underpin the current international negotiations for a new global agreement on climate change. This book is intended as an educational resource for anyone seeking a robust scientific overview of the complex and interdisciplinary challenge that climate change represents for the global community.

Author : Paul Hawken
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781524704650

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Drawdown by Paul Hawken Pdf

• New York Times bestseller • The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world “At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.” —Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming “There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.” —David Roberts, Vox “This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook—only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.” —Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.

Author : Eli Tziperman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780691228792

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Global Warming Science by Eli Tziperman Pdf

A quantitative, broad, hands-on introduction to the cutting-edge science of global warming This textbook introduces undergraduates to the concepts and methods of global warming science, covering topics that they encounter in the news, ranging from the greenhouse effect and warming to ocean acidification, hurricanes, extreme precipitation, droughts, heat waves, forest fires, the cryosphere, and more. This book explains each of the issues based on basic statistical analysis, simple ordinary differential equations, or elementary chemical reactions. Each chapter explains the mechanisms behind an observed or anticipated change in the climate system and demonstrates the tools used to understand and predict them. Proven in the classroom, Global Warming Science also includes “workshops” with every chapter, each based on a Jupyter Python notebook and an accompanying small data set, with supplementary online materials and slides for instructors. The workshop can be used as an interactive learning element in class and as a homework assignment. Provides a clear, broad, quantitative yet accessible approach to the science of global warming Engages students in the analysis of climate data and models, examining predictions, and dealing with uncertainty Features workshops with each chapter that enhance learning through hands-on engagement Comes with supplementary online slides, code, and data files Requires only elementary undergraduate-level calculus and basic statistics; no prior coursework in science is assumed Solutions manual available (only to instructors)

Author : S. George Philander
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781412958783

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Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change by S. George Philander Pdf

This is a collection of approximately 750 articles exploring major topics related to global warming and climate change ranging geographically from the North Pole to the South Pole and thematically from social effects to scientific cause. It also covers industrial and economic factors, the role of societies and much more.

Author : Guy Dauncey
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781550924374

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The Climate Challenge by Guy Dauncey Pdf

It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the urgency of global climate change. But when author Guy Dauncey assembles the world's best solutions in one place, as he does in The Climate Challenge, a vision emerges of a sustainable energy revolution. He opens the door to a century of exciting change, characterized by renewable energy, sustainable farming, carbon-rich forestry, green cities, electric vehicles, high-speed trains, a blossoming of innovation, and a host of new "green collar" jobs. The Climate Challenge draws on working solutions from around the world, and lays out the best actions for students and scientists, musicians and mayors, policy-makers and presidents, showing how it is possible to reduce our carbon footprint to almost zero by 2040. Each solution describes steps that are already being used in homes, schools, businesses, cities, and governments around the world - with full scientific references to help the reader dig deeper and push farther. If you worry about climate change, whether you are an enquiring teenager, a concerned householder, a farmer, forester, business leader, city mayor, or global policy-maker, this book will help you join the movement to help restore the planet's climate and build a new green economy.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : Bruce Elliott Johansen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015053522382

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The Global Warming Desk Reference by Bruce Elliott Johansen Pdf

Includes information on agriculture and warming, air travel, arctic, automobile, boreal forests, carbon cycle, carbon dioxide, climate models, climatic forcings, deforestation, energy efficiency, fossil fuels, glaciers, greenhouse gases, James E. Hansen, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Thomas Karl, Kyoto conference, Navajo, El Nino, ocean circulation, oceans, Omaha (Nebraska), ozone depletion, Pacific Northwest, permafrost, polar bears, sea levels, skeptics, stratosphere, temperatures, thermohaline circulation, urban heat islands, Washington (District of Columbia), West Antarctic Ice Sheet, George M. Woodwell, etc.