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The thinking person's guide to climate change / Robert Henson.

The thinking person's guide to climate change / Robert Henson.
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Record Number 18172
ISBN 9781935704737
Item Number 40023883545
Location 363.738 HEN
Author Henson, Robert, 1960- (author.).
Title The thinking person's guide to climate change / Robert Henson.
Portion of title Climate change
Published Boston, Massachusetts American Meteorological Society, 2014.
©2014
Collation xvii, 497 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps, portraits ; 21 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
Bibliography Note Includes index.
Contents Note pt. 1 The Basics -- Global warming in a nutshell -- 1.Climate Change: A Primer -- 2.The Greenhouse Effect -- 3.Who's Responsible? -- pt. 2 The Symptoms -- What's happening now, and what might happen in the future -- 4.Extreme Heat -- 5.Floods and Droughts -- 6.The Big Melt -- 7.Oceans -- 8.Hurricanes and Other Storms -- 9.Ecosystems and Agriculture -- pt. 3 The Science -- How we know what we know about climate change -- 10.Keeping Track -- 11.The Long View -- 12.Circuits of Change -- pt. 4 Debates and Solutions -- From spats and spin to protecting the planet -- 13.A Heated Debate -- 14.The Predicament -- 15.Political Solutions -- 16.Technological Solutions -- pt. 5 What Can You Do? -- Reducing your footprint and working for action -- 17.Getting Started -- 18.Home Energy -- 19.Transport and Travel -- 20.Shopping -- 21.Offsetting.
Summary Note "Combining years of data with recent research, including conclusions from the Fifth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the 'Guide' breaks down the issues into straightforward categories: Symptoms, including melting ice and extreme weather; Science, laying out what we know and how we know it; Debates, tackling the controversy and politics; Solutions and Actions for creating the best possible future." - Back cover.
Subject Climatic changes
Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on
Global warming
Climatic changes -- Popular works
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