Hot House Global Climate Change and the Human Condition

By: Robert G Strom

302 pages, 120 illus, 32 in col

Publisher: Springer Nature

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ISBN: 9780387341798 Hardback Aug 2007 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
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Global warming is extremely complex because it deals with so many different characteristics of the Earth and their complex interactions. It is addressed by almost all sciences including many aspects of geosciences, atmospheric, the biological sciences, and even astronomy. It has recently become the concern of other diverse disciplines such as economics, agriculture, demographics and population statistics, medicine, engineering, and political science. This book attempts to address these complex interactions, integrate them, and derive meaningful conclusions and possible solutions.

Robert Strom provides a complete, easy-to-read explanation of past and present global climate change, causes and possible solutions to the problem, including the politics and reasons why this is such a politically charged issue.

Foreword (by David Suzuki).- Chapter 1: We've Got a Problem.- Chapter 2: A Planetary Perspective.- Chapter 3: How do we Know and Why?- Chapter 4: A Hot and Cold Past.- Chapter 5: The Heat is On.- Chapter 6: Shame on Us.- Chapter 7: The Root Cause.- Chapter 8: The Melting Earth.- Chapter 9: Water World.- Chapter 10: The Biological Fingerprint.- Chapter 11: Hold on to your Hat.- Chapter 12: How will we Survive?- Chapter 13: The Escape Hatch.- Chapter 14: The Psychology, Politics and Economics of Global Warming.- Epilogue.