Climate Change Research Progress

About this book

Climate change refers to the variation in the Earth's global climate or in regional climates over time. It describes changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes can be caused by processes internal to the Earth, external forces (e.g. variations in sunlight intensity) or, more recently, human activities. In recent usage, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term 'climate change' often refers only to changes in modern climate, including the rise in average surface temperature known as global warming. This new book presents leading-edge research in this fast-moving field.

Contents

Preface

- Short communication
- Advances in methods for estimating soil organic carbon stock change at regional scales in developing and emerging countries
- Research and review studies
- Tracer elements and uranium-series isotopes in the bottom sediments of Lake Baikal as geochemical climate proxies for high-resolution reconstructions of regional change
- The economic literature on climate policy research -- the state of the art and some directions for further research
- Multiproxy analysis of climate variability for the last millenium in the tropical Andes
- Inorganic geochemistry in paleoclimate -- tools and trends in the analysis of peat and lake sediments
- Impacts of climate changes on marine ecosystems and fisheries productivity in marginal seas of the northwest pacific
- Decadal-to-centennial scale climate-carbon cycle interactions
- Climate change and population health; Global warning, crop selection and adaptation options in Kenyan agriculture
- The potential for increasing the contribution of renewable energies towards replacing fossil fuels is too small to justify the expenditure of government research funds
- The ability of climate models to generate tropical cyclones -- implications for prediction

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