Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: climate, change, assessment, ipcc, fourth, report, iii, mitigation, working, group, contribution
Number of Pages: 862
Published: 2007-11-12
List price: $178.99
ISBN-10: 0521880114
ISBN-13: 9780521880114
The Climate Change 2007 volumes of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provide the most comprehensive and balanced assessment of climate change available. This IPCC Working Group III volume is a state-of-the-art assessment of the scientific, technical, environmental, economic, and social aspects of the mitigation of climate change. Written by the world’s leading experts, the IPCC volumes will again prove to be invaluable for researchers, students, and policymakers, and will form the standard reference works for policy decisions for governm
Authors:James P. Bruce, Hoesung Lee, Erik F. Haites,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: climate, change, assessment, second, intergovernmental, panel, iii, report, working, economic, social, dimensions, contribution, group
Number of Pages: 458
Published: 1996-06-28
List price: $96.00
ISBN-10: 0521568544
ISBN-13: 9780521568548
Large, irreversible changes in climate may have a major effect on the economies of the world. The social costs of climate change will vary dramatically from country to country. This landmark assessment from Working Group III of the IPCC addresses the costs of climate change, both in terms of society and equity issues, and the economic burden of combating adverse climate change. The editors assess the response options, the applicability of cost-benefit analysis to climate change, and the costs faced by the many countries committed to limit greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2000. This exhau
Author: Committee to Review the U.S. Climate Change Scienc
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: change, climate, strategic, program, plan, science, review, global, research, implementing, final
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2004-08-16
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0309088658
ISBN-13: 9780309088657
Book DescriptionThe report reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a program formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global change research. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program incorporates the decade-old Global Change Research Program and adds a new component -- the Climate Change Research Initiative -- whose primary goal is to "measurably improve the integration of scientific knowledge, including measures of uncertainty, into effective decision support systems and resources."
Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Publisher: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Keywords: climate, change, mitigation
Number of Pages: 862
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0521705983
ISBN-13: 9780521705981
The third volume of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides an in-depth analysis of the costs and benefits of different approaches to mitigating and avoiding climate change. It includes a detailed assessment of costs and potentials of mitigation technologies and practices, implementation barrier, and policy options for the sectors: energy supply, transport, building, industry, agriculture, forestry and waste management. This volume will be an essential reference to all those concerned with climate change, including students and researchers,
Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: climate, report, intergovernmental, panel, change, special, system, ozone, layer, global, safeguarding
Number of Pages: 486
Published: 2005-10-24
List price: $189.99
ISBN-10: 0521863368
ISBN-13: 9780521863360
Scientific evidence linking chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting substances to global ozone depletion led to the initial control of chemicals under the 1987 Montreal Protocol. Since then it has been realized that some actions taken to reduce future depletion of the ozone layer could also influence global warming. When the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997, countries had new incentives to take account of how choices among substitutes could affect the objectives of both Protocols. This report provides the scientific context required for consideration of these choices; potential meth
Author: Panel on Climate Change Feedbacks Climate Researc
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: feedbacks, change, climate, understanding
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2003-12-02
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0309090725
ISBN-13: 9780309090728
During the past decade, scientists have learned much about the complex natural processes that influence climate variability and change, and our ability to model climate has increased significantly. We also have begun to better identify those parts of the climate system that are particularly important and not well understood and that therefore limit our ability to project the future evolution of Earth’s climate. One of these critical areas is our understanding of the role of feedbacks in the climate system and their role in determining climate sensitivity. Feedbacks are processes in the c
Author: John D. Cox
Publisher: Joseph Henry Pre
Keywords: climate, future, means, abrupt, crash, change
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0309093120
ISBN-13: 9780309093125
Watch out for natural climate change. From warm to cold, wet to dry, it doesn’t behave the way scientists thought it did. A drastic climate shift more sudden and troublesome than we’d ever imagined could already be underway. As scientists carefully search for clues in the sun and storm patterns from our distant past, they are gradually writing a new history of Earth’s climate. Layers extracted from cores drilled into glaciers and ice sheets, sediments collected from the shores of lakes and oceans, and growth rings exposed in ancient corals and trees all tell the same surprisi
