Introduction to Modern Climate Change

✍ Scribed by Andrew Dessler

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is an invaluable textbook for any introductory survey course on the science and policy of climate change, for both non-science majors and introductory science students. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the most recent science from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, and many illustrations include new data. The new edition also reflects advances in the political debate over climate change. Unique amongst textbooks on climate change, it combines an introduction to the science with an introduction to economic and policy issues, and is tightly focused on anthropogenic climate change. It contains the necessary quantitative depth for students to properly understand the science of climate change. It supports students in using algebra to understand simple equations and to solve end-of-chapter problems. Supplementary online resources include a complete set of PowerPoint figures for instructors, solutions to exercises, videos of the author's lectures, and additional computer exercises.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 An introduction to the climate problem
2 Is the climate changing?
3 Radiation and energy balance
4 A simple climate model
5 The carbon cycle
6 Forcing, feedbacks, and climate sensitivity
7 Why is the climate changing?
8 Predictions of future climate change
9 Impacts of climate change
10 Exponential growth
11 Fundamentals of climate change policy
12 Mitigation policies
13 A brief history of climate science and politics
14 Putting it together: A long-term policy to address climate change
References
Index