Global Climate Change A Primer

Name: Global Climate Change A Primer
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ISBN: 9780822351092

ISBN-10: 0822351099

ISBN-13: 9780822351092

Edition: 2011

Authors: Orrin H. Pilkey, Keith C. Pilkey, Orrin H. Pilkey

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An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engages in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written dozens of books and articles explaining coastal processes to lay readers, and he is a frequent and outspoken interviewee in the mainstream media. Here, the colorful scientist takes on climate change deniers in an outstanding and much-needed primer on the science of global change and its effects. After explaining the greenhouse effect, Pilkey, writing with son Keith, turns to the damage it is causing: sea level rise, ocean acidification, glacier and sea ice melting, changing habitats, desertification,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 6/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface



Global Change and the Greenhouse Earth



The Impact of Global Change



Doubts, Uncertainties, and Qualms



The Manufacture of Dissent The Global Warming Denial Lobby



THe Future of Ice



Global Change in the Oceans



Disappearing Civilizations



Global Change in the Bsosphere



Plan B Geoengineering to the Rescue?


About the Art


Bibliography


Index