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Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast

David Archer
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0899-0
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288 pages
March 2009, ©2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Online Models.

Preface.

1. Introduction: Humankind and Climate.

Part I: The Greenhouse Effect:.

2. Blackbody Radiation.

3. The Layer Model.

4. Greenhouse Gases.

5. Temperature Structure of the Atmosphere.

6. Heat, Winds, and Currents.

7. Feedbacks.

Part II: The Carbon Cycle:.

8. Carbon on Earth.

9. Fossil Fuels.

10. The Perturbed Carbon Cycle.

Part III: The Forecast:.

11. Is it Reliable?.

12. The Forecast.

13. Decisions, Decisions.

Glossary.

Index