Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast / Edition 2

Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast / Edition 2

by David Archer
ISBN-10:
0470943416
ISBN-13:
9780470943410
Pub. Date:
09/21/2011
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
0470943416
ISBN-13:
9780470943410
Pub. Date:
09/21/2011
Publisher:
Wiley
Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast / Edition 2

Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast / Edition 2

by David Archer
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Overview

Based on the author's highly successful undergraduate course taught at the University of Chicago, Global Warming presents the processes of climate change and climate stability. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, this Second Edition not only summarizes scientific evidence, but also presents economic and political issues related to global warming.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470943410
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 09/21/2011
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 7.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

David Archer is the author of Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, published by John Wiley and Sons and a book for popular audiences called The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 years of the Earth's Climate, published by Princeton University Press and winner of the 2009 Walter P. Kistler Award, The Foundation for the Future.
Since 1993, Archer has been a professor in the department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and has worked on a wide range of topics pertaining to the global carbon cycle and its relation to the global climate, with a special focus on ocean sedimentary processes such as CaCO3 dissolution and methane hydrate formation and their impact on the evolution of atmospheric CO2.
He currently teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry and global geochemical cycles.

Table of Contents

Online Models v

Preface vii

1 Humankind and Climate 1

Part I The Greenhouse Effect 7

2 Blackbody Radiation 9

3 The Layer Model 19

4 Greenhouse Gases 29

5 What Holds the Atmosphere Up? 43

6 Weather and Climate 57

7 Feedbacks 73

Part II The Carbon Cycle 87

8 Carbon on Earth 89

9 Fossil Fuels and Energy 103

10 The Perturbed Carbon Cycle 119

Part III The Forecast 133

11 The Smoking Gun 135

12 Potential Climate Impacts 153

13 Decisions, Decisions 173

Glossary 191

Index 197

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007

"Rigorous but rewarding, David Archer's book takes us through the science of global warming so that we can more effectively assess where the world may be heading."
–Andrew S. Goudie, University of Oxford


"David Archer's book is an accessible, entertaining, but detailed account of how scientists are trying to predict future climate change. It is an excellent book and should be the first port of call for anyone wanting to delve deeper into exactly what goes into those global warming forecasts."
Mark Maslin, University College London, author of Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction, OUP (2004)

"David Archer has provided a masterful and lucid explanation of a complex environmental problem. This is all you need to understand the issues."
Professor Ray Bradley, University of Massachusetts

"This is a wonderful book. Between the covers of a surprisingly slim paperback, David Archer has distilled nearly everything a concerned undergraduate student could wish to know about the workings of the climate system...overall, this book perfectly hits its target audience." –Keith Alverson, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Environmental Conservation, August 2007

"...a tour de force of elegant explanation and didactic brilliance...I cannot recommend this book too highly; it is a well-written, evocative exposition of one of the most important issues of our time."
Howard Falcon-Lang, University of Bristol, Geology Today, August 2007

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