Global Warming
List of figures xix 7.12 From Gates, D. M. 1993.Climate Change and its Biological Consequences. Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Assoc ...
xx List of figures (WEC), New York. Original source,Energy Balances of OECD Countries. Paris: International Energy Agency, 1999. ...
SI unit prefixes Quantity Prefix Symbol 1012 tera T 109 giga G 106 mega M 103 kilo k 102 hecto h 10 −^2 centi c 10 −^3 milli m 1 ...
Chemical symbols CFCs chlorofluorocarbons CH 4 methane CO carbon monoxide CO 2 carbon dioxide H 2 molecular hydrogen HCFCs hydro ...
Preface to the First Edition Climate change and global warming are well up on the current political agenda. There are urgent que ...
xxiv Preface tothe First Edition warming could be established. It was imperative that politicians were given a solid scientific ...
Preface to theFirst Edition xxv the uncertainties were such that scientists should refrain from making any estimates or predicti ...
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Preface to the Second Edition Since the publication of the first edition nearly three years ago, interest in the issue of Global ...
xxviii Prefaceto the Second Edition struggle to understand but must inescapably follow. Thus, Houghton holds that we have no cho ...
Preface to the Third Edition Since the Second Edition seven years ago, research and debate on the is- sue of human-induced clima ...
xxx Preface tothe Third Edition and commented on some of the draft chapters. I am also particularly grateful to David Griggs, Ge ...
Chapter 1 Global warming and climate change The phrase‘global warming’ has become familiar to many people as one of the importan ...
2 Global warming and climate change Variations in day-to-day weather are occurring all the time; they are very much part of our ...
Source: Climate Prediction Center, NOAA, USA MAJOR GLOBAL CLIMATE ANOMALIES AND EPISODIC EVENTS IN 1998 Wet/cool Jan.-May & ...
4 Global warming and climate change familiar enough to be given names. Hurricane Gilbert that caused devas- tation on the island ...
El Ni ̃no events 5 Losses (US$ million) 0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000 1950 1955 1965 1970 1975 1985 1995 Year Econ ...
6 Global warming and climate change Figure 1.3Recorded disasters in Africa, 1980–9, estimated by the Organization for African Un ...
The effect of volcanic eruptions on temperature extremes 7 Figure 1.4Regions where droughts and floods occurred associated with ...
8 Global warming and climate change quickly washed out by rainfall. During this period they disperse around the whole globe and ...
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