The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition: 13 (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) - Tapa blanda

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9780674031890: The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition: 13 (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
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ISBN 10: 067403189X ISBN 13: 9780674031890
Editorial: Harvard University Press, 2008

Sinopsis

The award-winning book is now revised and expanded.

In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion―by way of unexpected twists and turns―was the story Spencer Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. Now he brings his award-winning account up to date, revised throughout to reflect the latest science and with a new conclusion that shows how the scientific consensus caught fire among the general world public, and how a new understanding of the human meaning of climate change spurred individuals and governments to action.

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Acerca del autor

Spencer R. Weart is Director Emeritus of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.

De la contraportada

A Capricious Beast Ever since the days when he had trudged around fossil lake basins in Nevada for his doctoral thesis, Wally Broecker had been interested in sudden climate shifts. The reported sudden jumps of CO2 in Greenland ice cores stimulated him to put this interest into conjunction with his oceanographic interests. The result was a surprising and important calculation. The key was what Broecker later described as a "great conveyor belt'"of seawater carrying heat northward. . . . The energy carried to the neighborhood of Iceland was "staggering," Broecker realized, nearly a third as much as the Sun sheds upon the entire North Atlantic. If something were to shut down the conveyor, climate would change across much of the Northern Hemisphere... There was reason to believe a shutdown could happen swiftly. In many regions the consequences for climate would be spectacular. Broecker was foremost in taking this disagreeable news to the public. In 1987 he wrote that we had been treating the greenhouse effect as a 'cocktail hour curiosity, ' but now 'we must view it as a threat to human beings and wildlife.' The climate system was a capricious beast, he said, and we were poking it with a sharp stick.

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Editorial
Harvard University Press
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
067403189X
ISBN 13 
9780674031890
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
240
Contacto del fabricante
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