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Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...
In Cool It, Lomborg argues his view that many of the elaborate and expensive actions being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars without the same return on investment, often are based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may have very little impact on the world's temperature for centuries.
Climate change: the impact of capitalism: Naomi Klein: 2014: ISBN 978-1-45169738-4: The Chilling Stars: Climate change: cosmic rays as major contributor: Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder: 2003; 2007 (updated) ISBN 1-84046-815-7: The Climate Book: Causes, effects and possible solutions to the climate crisis: Greta Thunberg and many others: 2022 ...
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change is a non-fiction environmental science book by Elizabeth Kolbert that was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2006. The book documents a series of scientific observations and political processes, bringing attention to the causes and effects of global climate change .
The book also alerted Zhou Ji, president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, "to the extent of the climate problem". [8] The book was cited as contributing to Flannery being named Australian of the Year in 2007 for his clear and accessible communication of climate change science and its likely consequences for a fragile planet. [4]
The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) is a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was published in 2000. The greenhouse gas emissions scenarios described in the Report have been used to make projections of possible future climate change.
The involvement of community leaders, professionals, and local residents provided a rich source of knowledge on effective practices to combat the impacts of climate change on food security and livelihoods. This approach emphasizes the importance of local knowledge and community-based strategies in developing resilience to climate change. [10]
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate is a 2005 book [1] published by Princeton University Press and written by William Ruddiman, a paleoclimatologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He has authored and co-authored several books [2] and academic papers [3] on the subject of climate change.