Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth
Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth
Edited by Trevor M. Letcher
Elsevier, 2009
[ISBN: 044453301X; ISBN 13: 9780444533012]
Climate Change can be considered as a sequel to Trevor Letcher’s recent book Future Energy (published in 2008, also by Elsevier). The two are inexorably linked.
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The book is divided into 25 chapters, each one written by an expert in the field. The first five chapters focus on the possible causes of climate change, while in particular the first chapter deals with the possible effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Chapter six discusses the geological history of climate change, and puts the whole idea of climate change into perspective. The remaining 19 chapters focus on a variety of global changes brought about by climate change. These include detailed scientific observations on weather patterns; plants and plant pathogens; lichens; bird, insect, and animal ecology; sea temperature and ocean currents; rising sea levels; and coastal erosion and ice sheets. If there ever was doubt about whether global and climate changes are taking place, these chapters may help put such thinking to rest.
This book supports the work done by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change through experimental evidence. There has been no speculation, through computer modeling, at predicting possible future scenarios. The book is a scientific presentation of the facts surrounding climate change and no attempt has been made to offer solutions, although the basic nature of the problem is obvious; the burning of oil, coal, and gas is causing a significant rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter—all of which influence our climate. This book should have a strong influence on deciding our future energy options.
IUPAC supports the book, through its Chemistry and the Environment Division. IUPAC’s adherence to the International System of Quantities is reflected in the book, with the use of SI units wherever possible.
Climate Change is a source book and guide and is written, not only for students and researchers and their professors, but for decision makers in government and in industry, journalists and editors, corporate leaders, and all interested people who wish for a balanced, scientific, and honest look at this major problem facing us.
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- Masthead
- From the Editor
- Contents
- When You Walk through a Storm . . .
- Institut Kimia Malaysia: In Pursuit of Excellence in Chemistry
- Consistency and Clarity in Chemical Concepts: How to Achieve a Codified Chemical Terminology–A Pilot Study
- Increasing the Global Impact of the Polymer Division
- IUPAC Funding Opportunities in International Polymer Chemistry
- Gold Book Update
- IUPAC Members Recognized at Pittcon
- Thieme-IUPAC Prize–Call for Nominations
- CHEMRAWN VII Prize for Atmospheric and Green Chemistry–Call for Nominations
- InChI Trust
- Visualizing and Understanding the Science of Climate Change
- A Critical Evaluation of the Viscosity and Density of Molten Copper and Tin
- A Database of Water Transitions from Experiment and Theory
- Provisional Recommendations
- Glossary of Class Names of Polymers Based on Chemical Structure and Molecular Architecture (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)
- Discovery of the Element with Atomic Number 112 (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth
- Ecosystem Change and Human Well-Being–Research and Monitoring Priorities Based on the Findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- Future of Planet Earth
- POLYCHAR-16 World Forum on Advanced Materials
- Molecular Order and Mobility in Polymer Systems
- Polymers at the Frontiers of Science and Technology–MACRO 2008
- Periodic Table PDF Generator
- Radical Polymerization
- Clinical Laboratory and in vitro Diagnostics
- Macro- and Supramolecular Architectures
- Trace Elements in Food
- Lavoisier’s Better Half
- Challenges in Thermodynamics Applied to Materials World
- Solubility Phenomena and Related Equilibrium Processes
- Polymer Characterization
- EuCheMS Chemistry Congress
- Mark Your Calendar
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- From the Editor
- Contents
- When You Walk through a Storm . . .
- Institut Kimia Malaysia: In Pursuit of Excellence in Chemistry
- Consistency and Clarity in Chemical Concepts: How to Achieve a Codified Chemical Terminology–A Pilot Study
- Increasing the Global Impact of the Polymer Division
- IUPAC Funding Opportunities in International Polymer Chemistry
- Gold Book Update
- IUPAC Members Recognized at Pittcon
- Thieme-IUPAC Prize–Call for Nominations
- CHEMRAWN VII Prize for Atmospheric and Green Chemistry–Call for Nominations
- InChI Trust
- Visualizing and Understanding the Science of Climate Change
- A Critical Evaluation of the Viscosity and Density of Molten Copper and Tin
- A Database of Water Transitions from Experiment and Theory
- Provisional Recommendations
- Glossary of Class Names of Polymers Based on Chemical Structure and Molecular Architecture (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)
- Discovery of the Element with Atomic Number 112 (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth
- Ecosystem Change and Human Well-Being–Research and Monitoring Priorities Based on the Findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- Future of Planet Earth
- POLYCHAR-16 World Forum on Advanced Materials
- Molecular Order and Mobility in Polymer Systems
- Polymers at the Frontiers of Science and Technology–MACRO 2008
- Periodic Table PDF Generator
- Radical Polymerization
- Clinical Laboratory and in vitro Diagnostics
- Macro- and Supramolecular Architectures
- Trace Elements in Food
- Lavoisier’s Better Half
- Challenges in Thermodynamics Applied to Materials World
- Solubility Phenomena and Related Equilibrium Processes
- Polymer Characterization
- EuCheMS Chemistry Congress
- Mark Your Calendar
