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Global warming : the hard science / L.D. Danny Harvey.

By: Harvey, Leslie Daryl Danny, 1956-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Harlow, Essex : Pearson Education, 2000Description: xxiv, 336 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0582381673 .Subject(s): Global warming | Greenhouse effect, AtmosphericDDC classification: 551.6
Contents:
Part One Introduction: Climatic change and variability - past, present and future -- The climate system and climatic change -- The physics of the greenhouse effect, radiative forcing and climate sensitivity -- Factors driving anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere -- Observed changes in the climate system and sea level during the recent past -- Part Two Climatic change from emissions to climate system response: Models used in projecting future climatic change and sea level rise -- Computation of direct and indirect radiative forcings associated with changes in the concentration of greenhouse gases and aerosols -- Response of the carbon cycle and other biogeochemical cycles: translating emissions of GHGs and aerosols into concentrations and radiative forcing -- Climate sensitivity -- The regional equilibrium response to a doubling of the atmospheric concentration of CO2 -- The transient climatic response and the detection of anthropogenic effects on climate -- Sea level rise -- Part three The Science-policy interface: Scenarios of future climatic change -- The prospects for surprises.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Global Warming: The Hard Science presents a comprehensive, qualitatively rigorous, and critical discussion of the science underlying the global warming issue. The major processes in the climate system needed to understand projected human-induced climatic change are presented in detail. Observational systems used to monitor changes in the climate system and the ways in which the raw data are analyzed in order to produce estimates of current trends are also critically reviewed.

The author discusses the hierarchy of computer models used to project changes in the carbon cycle, in climate, and in sea level and examines the physical principles underlying the greenhouse effect and projected warming. The text also presents a detailed discussion of the carbon cycle, of climate sensitivity, and of projected patterns of climatic change through time. Sea level rise and issues of risk and potential surprises are also critically assessed. Emphasis is placed throughout on developing an intuitive understanding of those results that do not depend on the details of any one computer simulation model. A series of boxes illustrate the key points through step-by-step calculations.

Bibliography: p. 309-332. - Includes index.

Part One Introduction: Climatic change and variability - past, present and future -- The climate system and climatic change -- The physics of the greenhouse effect, radiative forcing and climate sensitivity -- Factors driving anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere -- Observed changes in the climate system and sea level during the recent past -- Part Two Climatic change from emissions to climate system response: Models used in projecting future climatic change and sea level rise -- Computation of direct and indirect radiative forcings associated with changes in the concentration of greenhouse gases and aerosols -- Response of the carbon cycle and other biogeochemical cycles: translating emissions of GHGs and aerosols into concentrations and radiative forcing -- Climate sensitivity -- The regional equilibrium response to a doubling of the atmospheric concentration of CO2 -- The transient climatic response and the detection of anthropogenic effects on climate -- Sea level rise -- Part three The Science-policy interface: Scenarios of future climatic change -- The prospects for surprises.

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