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| Climate Process and Change | 
 enlarge | Author: Edward Bryant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $152.94
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2939159
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 225
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0521481899
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.6
EAN: 9780521481892
ASIN: 0521481899
Publication Date: October 28, 1997
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Condition: This book is brand new, never been opened, and in superb condition. Thousands of satisfied customers.
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Product Description
This is the first major textbook to encompass the true complexity of climate change. While greenhouse warming dominates most of the literature, Bryant presents numerous reasons for the observed climate change of the past century. He argues that changes in climate, more dramatic than those of the past 150 years, have been a predominant aspect of the Earth's climate over the past two million years. He highlights human impacts on climate other than "greenhouse" gases, including sulphate air pollutants, dust and urban heat islands. He also explains the natural components forcing climate change. Bryant presents, in simple terms, the processes that drive the Earth's present climate system. He outlines the nature and reasons for temperature fluctuations over millennia, including recent human-induced climate change. Finally, he discusses the impact of climate change on human health and the world's ecosystems. This text will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate students as well as a reference for professionals.
Book Description
This textbook encompasses the true complexity of climate change. Bryant presents the basic processes behind climate change and outlines the nature and reasons for the dramatic temperature fluctuations over millenia, including recent changes partially related to human activity. Whilst 'greenhouse' warming dominates most of the literature, this text also examines the role of sulphate air pollutants, dust and urban heat islands. Finally the effect of climate change upon human health and the world's ecosystems are discussed.
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The best comprehensive view of this subject I have seen. November 25, 1998
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Bryant does a great job of describing the climate history of the earth along with the processes which have driven it. His discussion includes changes at the galactic, solar system, and planetary level. Evidence and uncertainties about greenhouse warming as well as potential effects of ozone depletion and nuclear winter. The final section of the book describes health effects of climate change including: droughts and hunger; warming and increase in disease vectors; ozone depletion and skin cancer, eye injury, and impacts on plants. Ample bibliographic data is presented. This is not a populist doomsday book but a valuable survey of the scientific knowledge on the subject.
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