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Global Warming 101
Bruce E. Johansen
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Description for Global Warming 101
Hardback. Series: Science 101 S. 224 pages, 30 illustrations (b&w). A guide to the science of global warming, which describes scientific issues related to melting ice, rising seas, and effects on plants and animals, as well as human health before concluding with the consideration of possible solutions. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: RNPG. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 19. Weight: 454.
The accelerating pace of global warming is provoking anxiety that the Earth is reaching an ominous threshold, a point of no return. Within a decade or two, various feedbacks may take greenhouse warming past any human ability to contain or reverse it. Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly, fed by increasing fossil-fuel use world-wide, melting permafrost, slash-and-burn agriculture in Indonesia and Brazil, increasing wildfires, as well as rapid industrialization using dirty coal in China and India. Global warming may well become the most urgent problem the world faces during the 21st Century . Natural variations are no longer ... Read more
The accelerating pace of global warming is provoking anxiety that the Earth is reaching an ominous threshold, a point of no return. Within a decade or two, various feedbacks may take greenhouse warming past any human ability to contain or reverse it. Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly, fed by increasing fossil-fuel use world-wide, melting permafrost, slash-and-burn agriculture in Indonesia and Brazil, increasing wildfires, as well as rapid industrialization using dirty coal in China and India. Global warming may well become the most urgent problem the world faces during the 21st Century . Natural variations are no longer ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313346903
SKU
V9780313346903
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About Bruce E. Johansen
Bruce E. Johansen is Frederick W. Kayser Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has been teaching and writing in the School of Communication at UNO since 1982. Johansen writes frequently about environmental subjects, including Global Warming in the 21st century (Praeger, 3 vols., 2006), The Global Warming Desk Reference (Greenwood, 2001), The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and ... Read more
Reviews for Global Warming 101
…this book takes a crucial, complex scientific field and makes it readily accessible to readers. I firmly think this book ought to be required reading for everyone on teh planet, and at the very least, I think a copy shoudl be in every high school classroom in this country. Anything less would be a disservice to our educational charges. ... Read more