TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mathez,Edmond A.
AU  - Smerdon,Jason
TI  - Climate change: the science of global warming and our energy future 
SN  - 9780231547871
AV  - QC981 .C556 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Global warming
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Intro; Table of Contents; Preface; Prologue; Part I. The Climate System; 1. The Atmosphere; 2. The World Ocean; 3. Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions; 4. The Carbon Cycle and How It Influences Climate; Part II. Climate Change and Its Drivers; 5. The Concept of Radiation Balance, a Scientific Framework for Thinking About Climate Change; 6. Radiative Forcing, Feedbacks, and Some Other Characteristics of the Climate System; 7. Learning from the Climate of the Distant Past; Part III. Consequences of Climate Change; 8. The Climate of the Recent Past and Impacts on Human History; 9. Observing the Change; 10. Greenland, Antarctica, and Sea-Level RisePart IV. The Future; 11. Climate Models and the Future; 12. Climate Change Risk in an Unknowable Future; 13. Energy and the Future; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; 2; b
N2  - This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide a broad, informative introduction to the science that underlies our understanding of the climate system and the effects of human activity on the warming of our planet
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