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This book provides a complete, easy-to-read explanation of past and present global climate change. It examines the causes and possible solutions to the problem, including the politics and reasons why this is such a politically charged issue.

Global warming is extremely complex because it deals with so many different characteristics of the Earth and their complex interactions. It is addressed by almost all sciences including many aspects of geosciences, atmospheric, the biological sciences, and even astronomy. It has recently become the concern of other diverse disciplines such as economics, agriculture, demographics and population statistics, medicine, engineering, and political science. This book attempts to address these complex interactions, integrate them, and derive meaningful conclusions and possible solutions.

Robert Strom provides a complete, easy-to-read explanation of past and present global climate change, causes and possible solutions to the problem, including the politics and reasons why this is such a politically charged issue.

A complete, easy-to-read explanation and history of global climate change Details the politics and solutions to the problem of global warming Presents the latest research results from a variety of disciplines Explains the difference between weather change and climate change Points to the accountability of the human race in global warming

Klappentext

Global warming is addressed by almost all sciences including many aspects of geosciences, atmospheric, the biological sciences, and even astronomy. It has recently become the concern of other diverse disciplines such as economics, agriculture, demographics and population statistics, medicine, engineering, and political science.

This book addresses these complex interactions, integrates them, and derives meaningful conclusions and possible solutions. The text provides an easy-to-read explanation of past and present global climate change, causes and possible solutions to the problem, including the politics and reasons why this is such a politically charged issue.

Inhalt
A Gigantic Experiment.- The ABCs of Climate Change.- A Planetary Perspective.- Time and Causes.- A Hot and Cold Past.- The Heat Is On.- The Human Impact.- The Main Offenders.- The Root Cause.- The Melting Earth.- Water World.- What's in Store for Us?.- The Escape Hatch.- Politics and Money.- It's Now or Never.