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The Climate Change Debate: A Reference Handbook / David E. Newton.

Newton, David E., (author.).

Summary:

"The Climate Change Debate: A Reference Handbook provides an in-depth look at climate change facts and statistics. It also discusses those that disagree with the scientific consensus"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781440875427
  • ISBN: 1440875421
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 344 pages) : illustrations.
  • Publisher: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Background and history. The climatic record -- Climate through the millennia -- The tools of paleoclimatology -- Causes of climate change -- A greenhouse Earth -- A new day for climate science -- Post-Keeling developments -- Problems, controversies, and solutions. Climate change as a national issue -- Possible consequences of climate change -- Climate skeptics and deniers -- Industry responds -- Possible solutions -- Perspectives. Cemetery management today or reinternment management tomorrow / Jennifer Blanks -- Comatose in climate catastrophe / Olivia Cooper -- Coastal community faces effects of climate change, sea-level rise / ChrisAnn Silver Esformes -- A call for climate literacy / Gregory Foy and Leigh Foy -- Scientific skepticism of climate change models / Joel Grossman -- How the powerful advance climate change / Maxine Gunther-Segal -- Landslide mitigation and perception in Rio de Janeiro / Abigail Hanna -- The little big changes--how big is your backyard? / Hogyeum Joo -- Give me money, give me power, and give them death / Joy Semien -- Profiles. Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) -- Center for Climate and Energy Solutions -- Climate Action Network -- Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) -- Al Gore Jr. (1948- ) -- James Hansen (1941- ) -- Syukuro Manabe (1931- ) -- Past global changes -- Roger Revelle (1909-1991) -- Hans Suess (1909-1993) -- Greta Thunberg (2003- ) -- 350.org -- United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- United States Environmental Protection Agency -- Yale Program on Climate Change Communication -- Data and documents. Data. Global radiative forcing, CO₂-equivalent mixing ratio, and the AGGI (1979-2018) -- Average annual CO₂ concentration, Mauna Loa, Hawaii parts per million (ppm: uncertainty in all measurements is 0.12 ppm) -- Area covered by ice in Arctic Sea, 1979-2017 (million square miles) -- Atmospheric CO₂ levels, 1850-1958 (parts per million) -- Documents. On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground (1896) -- Remarkable weather of 1911 (1912) -- Energy Tax Act (1978) -- Massachusetts v. EPA (2007) -- Executive Order 13514 (2009) -- President Obama's Climate Action Plan (2013) -- Executive Order 13653 (2013) -- The Clean Power Plan (2015) -- Executive Order 13783 (2017) -- The Affordable Clean Energy Rule (2019) -- Resources -- Chronology.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central; viewed April 14, 2021)
Subject:
Climatic changes.
Climate Change
climate change.
Climatic changes.
Genre:
Electronic books.

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