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100	1		_aRapp, Donald. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAssessing Climate Change _h[electronic resource] : _bTemperatures, Solar Radiation, and Heat Balance / _cby Donald Rapp.
264		1	_aBerlin, Heidelberg : _bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg, _c2008.
300			_aXXX, 390 p. 130 illus. _bonline resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aSpringer Praxis Books
505	0		_aHistorical 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			_aIn 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	_aEarth sciences.
650		0	_aClimatology.
650		0	_aAtmospheric sciences.
650		0	_aClimate change.
650		0	_aEnvironmental sciences.
650		0	_aAir pollution.
650	1	4	_aEarth Sciences.
650	2	4	_aAtmospheric Sciences.
650	2	4	_aClimate Change.
650	2	4	_aClimatology.
650	2	4	_aAtmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.
650	2	4	_aEnvironmental Physics.
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776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783540765868
830		0	_aSpringer Praxis Books
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76587-5
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950			_aEarth and Environmental Science (Springer-11646)
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