Title:
Global warming : the complete briefing
Author:
Houghton, J. T. (John Theodore), 1931-
ISBN:
9780521709163
Personal Author:
Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical Description:
xviii, 438 p. : col. ill., col. maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
General Note:
Previous ed.: 2004.
Contents:
Global warming and climate change -- The greenhouse effect -- The greenhouse gases -- Climates of the past -- Modelling the climate -- Climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond -- The impacts of climate change -- Why should we be concerned? -- Weighing the uncertainty -- A strategy for action to slow and stabilise climate change -- Energy and transport for the future -- The global village.