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The Global Warming Desk Reference
Bruce E. Johansen
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The Global Warming Desk Reference

Bruce E. Johansen Bruce E. Johansen

October 2001

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With global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, infrared forcing, popularly known as the greenhouse effect, has attracted worldwide concern. This book is a concise, college-level compendium of the research on global warming. It surveys the scientific consensus on the issue, describes recent findings, and also considers the arguments of skeptics who doubt that global warming is a threat. Suggesting that the effects of global warming can be seen in the melting of glaciers and the dying of coral reefs, the work summarizes the potential impact on human health and on plants and animals worldwide. Concluding with possible solutions, the book contains one of the most comprehensive bibliographies on the subject.

A growing field of study with a rapidly expanding literature, global warming should be of interest to everyone on Earth. Evidence of the greenhouse effect, due to emissions of carbon dioxide and other trace gases, has been accumulating for a quarter century. This book covers both research from scientific journals and newspaper and magazine reports of present-day evidence. The book will be a valuable resource for individuals concerned with the environment as well as for students of environmental sciences, meteorology, and earth sciences.
Preface: Diary of a Warm Winter
Introduction
A Sketch of the Problem
The General Consensus on Global Warming
Warmer is Better, Richer is Healthier: Global-Warming Skeptics
Icemelt: Glacial, Arctic, and Antarctic
Warming Seas
Flora and Fauna
Human Health
A Fact of Daily Life: Global Warming and Indigenous Peoples
Greenhouse Gases and the Weather: Now, and in the Year 2100
Possible Solutions
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
Johansen has his finger on the pulse of global climate change as he traverses the hot-button topics now prominent in popular and scientific media....this research reference handbook offers a concise survey of the climate change problem....All levels.—Choice

^IThe Global Warming Desk Reference^R fills an important niche, providing a well-researched and well-written overview of what we know about the phenomena of global climate change and the greenhouse effect. Highly recommended for high school, public, and academic libraries.—Reference & User Services Quarterly

Undergraduates will find this book easy to read and overflowing with information...it is highly recommended as an addition to any reference collection either in an academic or public setting.—E-Streams





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