Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Global warming and climate change
- 2 The greenhouse effect
- 3 The greenhouse gases
- 4 Climates of the past
- 5 Modelling the climate
- 6 Climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond
- 7 The impacts of climate change
- 8 Why should we be concerned?
- 9 Weighing the uncertainty
- 10 A strategy for action to slow and stabilise climate change
- 11 Energy and transport for the future
- 12 The global village
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2 Acknowledgements for figures, photos and tables
- Glossary
- Index
Appendix 2 - Acknowledgements for figures, photos and tables
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Global warming and climate change
- 2 The greenhouse effect
- 3 The greenhouse gases
- 4 Climates of the past
- 5 Modelling the climate
- 6 Climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond
- 7 The impacts of climate change
- 8 Why should we be concerned?
- 9 Weighing the uncertainty
- 10 A strategy for action to slow and stabilise climate change
- 11 Energy and transport for the future
- 12 The global village
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2 Acknowledgements for figures, photos and tables
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
Figures
1.1 From World Climate News, no. 16, July 1999. Geneva: World Meteorological Organization. A similar map is prepared and published each year. Data from Climate Prediction Center, NOAA, USA.
1.2 Figure 2.7 from Watson, R. et al. (eds.) 2001. Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1.3 World Meteorological Organization 1990. From The Role of the World Meteorological Organization in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, World Meteorological Organization report no, 745. Geneva: World Meteorological Organization.
1.4 Adapted from: Canby, T. Y. 1984. El Niño's ill wind. National Geographic Magazine, pp. 144–83.
1.5 After Fig. 1.1 from IPCC 2007. Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Geneva: IPCC.
2.2 After FAQ 1.3, Fig. 1 from Le Treut, H., Somerville, R., Cubasch, U., Ding, Y., Mauritzen, C., Mokssit, A., Peterson, T., Prather, M., 2007. Historical overview of climate change. In Solomon, S., Qin, D., Manning, M., Chen, Z., Marquis, M., Averyt, K. B., Tignor, M., Miller, H. L., (eds.) Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 115.
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- Global WarmingThe Complete Briefing, pp. 409 - 417Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009