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978-3-540-76587-5 |
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9783540765875 |
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978-3-540-76587-5 |
024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER |
Standard number or code |
10.1007/978-3-540-76587-5 |
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doi |
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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QC851-999 |
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE |
Subject category code |
RB |
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bicssc |
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE |
Subject category code |
SCI042000 |
Source |
bisacsh |
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
551.5 |
Edition number |
23 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Rapp, Donald. |
Relator term |
author. |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Assessing Climate Change |
Medium |
[electronic resource] : |
Remainder of title |
Temperatures, Solar Radiation, and Heat Balance / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
by Donald Rapp. |
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Berlin, Heidelberg : |
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2008. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
XXX, 390 p. 130 illus. |
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online resource. |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
Content type code |
txt |
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rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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computer |
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c |
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rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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online resource |
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cr |
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rdacarrier |
347 ## - DIGITAL FILE CHARACTERISTICS |
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text file |
Encoding format |
PDF |
Source |
rda |
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
Series statement |
Springer Praxis Books |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Historical variations in the Earth’s climate -- Temperatures in the past millennium -- Temperatures in the past century -- Variability of the Sun -- The Earth’s heat balance and the greenhouse effect -- CO2 production and climate change -- Impacts of global warming -- Global climate change and public policy -- Final remarks. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
In ASSESSING CLIMATE CHANGE Donald Rapp has investigated a large body of scientific data relevant to climate change, approaching each element with necessary (but neutral) scientific skepticism. The chapters of the book attempt to answer a number of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change. He begins by showing how the earth’s climate has varied in the past, discussing ice ages, the Holocene period since the end of the last ice age, particularly during the past 1000 years. He investigates the reliability of "proxies" for historical temperatures and assesses the hockey stick version of global temperatures for the past millennium. To do this effectively he looks carefully at how well near surface temperatures of land and ocean on earth have been monitored during the past 100 years or more, and looks at the utility and significance of a single global average temperature. Topics such as the variability of the Sun and the Earth’s heat balance are discussed in considerable detail. The author also investigates how the current global warming trend compares with past fluctuations in earth’s climate and what is the likelihood that the warming trend we are experiencing now is primarily just another in a series of natural climate fluctuations as opposed to a direct result of human activities. A key factor in understanding what may happen in the future is to examine the credibility of the global climate models which claim that greenhouse gasses produce most of the temperature rise of the 20th Century, and forecast much greater impacts in the century ahead. Finally, the book considers future global energy requirements, fossil fuel usage and carbon dioxide production, public policy relating to global warming, and agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Earth sciences. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Climatology. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Atmospheric sciences. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Climate change. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Environmental sciences. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Air pollution. |
650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Earth Sciences. |
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Atmospheric Sciences. |
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Climate Change. |
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Climatology. |
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution. |
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Environmental Physics. |
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
SpringerLink (Online service) |
773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY |
Title |
Springer eBooks |
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
Relationship information |
Printed edition: |
International Standard Book Number |
9783540765868 |
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
Uniform title |
Springer Praxis Books |
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76587-5 |
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