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SPRINGER Hot House Global Climate Change And The Human Condition by STROM ROBERT
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. 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.