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DK Eyewitness Books: Weather
Dorling Kindersley 2007; US$ 16.99?A mini museum between the covers of a book.?-- The New York Times ?Pioneering?visually captivating, dependable nonfiction.?-- Booklist ?HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.? -- Library Media Connection (starred review) Some of the most popular selections from the formidable Eyewitness backlist are available. Includes spectacular, detailed full-color photographs... more...
Global Warming 101
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 50.00The accelerating pace of global warming is provoking anxiety that the Earth is reaching an ominous threshold, a point of no return. Within a decade or two, various feedbacks may take greenhouse warming past any human ability to contain or reverse it. Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly, fed by increasing fossil-fuel use world-wide,... more...
Dealing with Climate Change
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2002; US$ 100.00In 2001 the 26 IEA Member countries took or planned over 200 energy-related policies and measures to tackle climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. This volume reviews the actions taken and describes them in detail. It shows how developed countries implement the commitments made under international agreements or at national level to reduce... more...
Encyclopaedia of Global Warming: Volumes 1- 5
Himalaya Publishing House 2008; US$ 45.00Global warming is a current and burning topic, today. To comprehend, it is: th E gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth`s atmosphere, due to increased level of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.` Extreme weather events, rise in the sealevel and a plethora of diseases are some of the serious concerns, which have drawn attention of... more...
How to Cool the Planet
Scribe Publications 2010; US$ 26.99When Jeff Goodell first encountered the term 'geoengineering', he had a vague sense that it involved outlandish schemes to counteract global warming. As a journalist, he was deeply sceptical. But he was also intrigued. The planet was in trouble. Could geoengineers help? As Goodell shows in this bracing book, even if we could muster the political will... more...
Climate & Oceans
Elsevier Science 2009; US$ 97.95Climate and Oceans is a derivative of the Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 2 nd Edition and serves as an important reference on current knowledge and expertise in one convenient and accessible source. The selected articles?all written by experts in their field?fall into several categories, including: ocean circulation, heat and water... more...
Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society
Springer 2010; US$ 99.99The book covers state-of-the-art considerations on how climate change has and will deliver impacts on major globalised biophysical and societal themes that will affect the way the world functions. Human activity has resulted in changes to atmospheric chemistry and land cover, and caused serious decline in biodiversity. Modifying biogeochemical cycles... more...
Climate Time Series Analysis
Springer 2010; US$ 159.99Climate is a paradigm of a complex system. Analysing climate data is an exciting challenge, which is increased by non-normal distributional shape, serial dependence, uneven spacing and timescale uncertainties. This book presents bootstrap resampling as a computing-intensive method able to meet the challenge. It shows the bootstrap to perform reliably... more...
Cold Front
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 35.00The Arctic: land of ice and the six-month day; irresistible goal for explorers and adventurers; enduring source of romance and mystery - and now also a poignant and unavoidable indicator of the impact of climate change. As the ice cap shrinks, the geography of the entire Arctic region changes: clear shipping channels replace immovable ice and inaccessible... more...









