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State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World

  • ISBN13: 9780393334180
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A comprehensive guide to global warming and the steps we must take to combat it. The evidence continues to mount: melting ice caps, rising temperatures, increasingly frequent natural disasters. As the devastating effects of global warming come into sharper focus, societies must work to both mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to ongoing … More >>

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The Global Warming Desk Reference

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Rapidly rising global temperatures or “infrared forcing,” popularly known as the “greenhouse effect,” has attracted worldwide concern. This book is a concise, college-level compendium of the research on global warming. It surveys the scientific consensus on the issue, describes recent findings, and also considers the arguments of skeptics who doubt that global warming is a threat…. More >>

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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas, Effects of Global Warming, Parts-per Notation, Dennis Tirpak, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and … to Global Warming, Abrupt Climate Change.

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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: A Scientific Symposium on Stabilisation of Greenhouse Gases was a 2005 international conference that examined the link between atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration, and the 2 °C (3.6 °F) ceiling on global warming thought necessary to avoid the most serious effects of global warming. Previously this had generally been accepted as being 550 ppm. The conference took place under the United Kingdom’s presidency of the G8, with the… More >>

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