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John T. Houghton - Global Warming: The Complete Briefing - 9781107463790 - V9781107463790
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Global Warming: The Complete Briefing

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Description for Global Warming: The Complete Briefing Paperback. John T. Houghton's definitive, full-colour, guide to climate change is fully up-to-date with the latest IPCC findings. Num Pages: 396 pages, 173 colour illus. 15 tables 110 exercises. BIC Classification: RNPG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 248 x 192 x 20. Weight in Grams: 860.
How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? Sir John Houghton's definitive, full colour guide to climate change answers these questions and more by providing the best and latest information available, including the latest IPCC findings. The simple, logical flow of ideas gives an invaluable grounding in the science, as well as the physical and human impacts of climate change, for undergraduate students across a wide range of disciplines. Accessible to both scientists and non-scientists, the text avoids mathematical equations and includes more technical material in ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
396
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107463790
SKU
V9781107463790
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Ref
99-50

About John T. Houghton
Sir John Houghton CBE, FRS is a former Chairman of the Scientific Assessment Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Chairman of the UK's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, Vice President of the World Meteorological Organisation, President of the Royal Meteorological Society, and Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Oxford University. He was Chief Executive of the UK Meteorological ... Read more

Reviews for Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
Review of previous edition: 'It is difficult to imagine how Houghton's exposition of this complex body of information might be substantially improved upon … Seldom has such a complex topic been presented with such remarkable simplicity, directness and crystalline clarity … Houghton's complete briefing is without doubt the best briefing the concerned citizen could hope to find within the pages ... Read more

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