Global Warming
The problem of global warming 9 exist. Although, therefore, it can be ascertained that there was more storminess, for instance, ...
10 Global warming and climate change rapid expansion taking place in the world’s industry the change is un- likely to be either ...
Adaptation and mitigation 11 Climate Change - an integrated framework Socio-economic development paths Economic growth Technolog ...
12 Global warming and climate change Uncertainty and response Predictions of the future climate are surrounded with considerable ...
Notes 13 2 Make up a simple questionnaire about climate change, global warming and the greenhouse effect to find out how much pe ...
Chapter 2 The greenhouse effect The basicprinciple of global warming can be understood by considering the radiation energy from ...
How the Earthkeeps warm 15 Figure 2.1The radiation balance of planet Earth. The net incoming solar radiation is balanced by outg ...
16 The greenhouseeffect Table 2.1The composition of the atmosphere, the main constituents (nitrogen and oxygen) and the greenhou ...
The greenhouseeffect 17 Pioneers of the science of the greenhouse effect^5 Thewarming effectof the greenhousegases in the atmosp ...
18 The greenhouseeffect Figure 2.2A greenhouse has a similar effect to the atmosphere on the incoming solar radiation and the em ...
The greenhouseeffect 19 Figure 2.3The distribution of temperature in a convective atmosphere (full line). The broken line shows ...
20 The greenhouseeffect Figure 2.5The blanketing effect of greenhouse gases. Objects that are good absorbers of radiation are al ...
Mars and Venus 21 Figure 2.6Components of the radiation (in watts per square metre) which on average enter and leave the Earth’s ...
22 The greenhouseeffect or two per cent of the sunlight present above the clouds penetrates that far. One might suppose, because ...
The enhanced greenhouseeffect 23 A runaway sequence something like this seems to have occurred on Venus. Why, we may ask, has it ...
24 The greenhouseeffect Figure 2.8Illustrating the enhanced greenhouse gas effect. Under natural conditions (a) the net solar ra ...
Questions 25 to be halved. If it were to be removed altogether, the change in outgoing radiation would be around 25 watts per sq ...
26 The greenhouseeffect 2 It is sometimes argued that the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide is neg- ligible because its absorp ...
Notes 27 solar radiation but also absorb thermal radiation, and so have a blanketing effect similar to greenhouse gases. For the ...
Chapter 3 The greenhouse gases The greenhousegases are those gases in the atmosphere which, by absorbing thermal radiation emitt ...
«
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
»
Free download pdf