Experimenting on a Small Planet : A History of Scientific Discoveries, a Future of Climate Change and Global Warming /

This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to unde...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hay, William W. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:	3rd ed. 2021.
Subjects:	Science. Physical geography. Earth sciences. Science, multidisciplinary. Earth System Sciences. Earth Sciences, general. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Discovering Climate
Chapter 3. The Language of Science
Chapter 4. Applying Mathematics to Problems
Chapter 5. Geologic Time
Chapter 6. Putting Numbers on Geologic Ages
Chapter 7. Documenting Past Climate Change
Chapter 8. The Nature of Energy Received From the Sun - The Analogies with Water Waves and Sound
Chapter 9. The Nature of Energy Received From the Sun---Figuring Out What Light Really Is
Chapter 10. Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Chapter 11. The Origins of Climate Science---The Idea Of Energy Balance
Chapter 12. The Climate System
Chapter 13. What's At The Bottom of Alice's Rabbit Hole
Chapter 14. Energy from the Sun---Long-Term Variations
Chapter 15. Solar Variability and Cosmic Rays
Chapter 16. Albedo
Chapter 17. Air
Chapter 18. HOH---The Keystone Of Earth's Climate
Chapter 19. The Atmosphere
Chapter 20. Oxygen and Ozone---Products and Protectors of Life
Chapter 21. Water Vapor---The Major Greenhouse Gas
Chapter 22. Carbon Dioxide
Chapter 23. Other Greenhouse Gases
Chapter 24. The Earth Is a Sphere and Rotates
Chapter 25. The Coriolis Effect
Chapter 26. The Circulation of Earth's Atmosphere
Chapter 27. The Circulation of Earth's Oceans
Chapter 28. The Biological Interactions
Chapter 29. Sea Level
Chapter 30. Global Climate Change---The Geologically Immediate Past
Chapter 31. Human Impacts on the Environment and Climate
Chapter 32. Predictions of the Future of Humanity
Chapter 33. Is there an Analog for the Future Climate
Chapter 34. The Instrumental Temperature Record
Chapter 35. The Changing Climate of the Polar Regions
Chapter 36. Global, Regional and Local Effects of Our Changing Climate
Chapter 37. Final Thoughts.