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9780133909777

Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change

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  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2015-01-01
  • Publisher: PEARSON

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Summary

For any science or social science course in need of a basic understanding of IPCC reports.

Periodic reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) evaluate the risk of climate change brought on by humans. But the sheer volume of scientific data remains inscrutable to the general public, particularly to those who may still question the validity of climate change. In just over 200 pages, this practical text presents and expands upon the essential findings in a visually stunning and undeniably powerful way to the lay reader. Scientific findings that provide validity to the implications of climate change are presented in clear-cut graphic elements, striking images, and understandable analogies.

 

The Second Edition covers the latest climate change data and scientific consensus from the Fifth Assessment Report and integrates links to media and active learning to capture learning opportunities for students. The text is also available in various eText formats, including an upgrade option from MasteringGeography.

 

Author Biography

Dr. Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University, with joint

appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems

Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC).

 

Dr. Mann received his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math from the University of

California at Berkeley, an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Geology &

Geophysics from Yale University. His research involves the use of theoretical models and

observational data to better understand Earth's climate system.

 

Dr. Mann was a Lead Author on the Observed Climate Variability and Change chapter of the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report in 2001 and

was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003.

He has received a number of honors and awards including NOAA's outstanding publication award in

2002 and selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and

technology in 2002. He contributed, with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace

Prize. He was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2012 and

was awarded the National Conservation Achievement Award for science by the National Wildlife

Federation in 2013. He made Bloomberg News' list of fifty most influential people in 2013. He is a

Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.

 

Dr. Mann is author of more than 160 peer-reviewed and edited publications, and has published two

books including Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and

the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines in 2012. He is also a co-founder and avid

contributor to the award-winning science website RealClimate.org.

 

Lee R. Kump is a Professor in the Department of Geosciences, and an associate of the Earth

System Science Center and Astrobiology Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University. A

native of Minnesota, he received his bachelor's degree in geophysical sciences from the University

of Chicago in 1981, and his Ph.D. in marine sciences from the University of South Florida in 1986.

While in Florida he spent two summers as a geologist with the United States Geological Survey's

Fisher Island Station. In August of 1986 he joined the faculty at Penn State.

 

Dr. Kump is a Fellow of the Geological Societies of America and London, and a member of the

American Geophysical Union, the Geochemical Society, and the Geochemistry Division of the

American Chemical Society. His research has been funded by the Environmental Protection Agency,

the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Gas Research Institute, the Petroleum Research Fund

of the American Chemical Society, and Texaco. Dr. Kump became Associate Director of the CIAR

Earth System Evolution Program in 2004. Dr. Kump's primary research effort is in the development

of numerical models of global biogeochemical cycles. His early work focussed on the carbon and

sulfur cycles, and on the feedbacks that regulate atmospheric oxygen levels. More recently his

emphasis has shifted to the study of the dynamic coupling between global climate and

biogeochemical cycles. He studies the long-term evolution of the oceans and atmosphere, using a

combination of field work, laboratory analysis, and numerical modeling.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Climate Change Basics
The relative impacts of humans and nature on climate
Taking action in the face of uncertainty
Why is it called the greenhouse effect?
Feedback loops compound the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide
What are the important greenhouse gases, and where do they come from?
Greenhouse gases on the rise
Could the increase in atmospheric CO2 be the result of natural cycles?
It’s getting hotter down here!
Where is all that heat going?
Is our atmosphere really warming?
Back to the future
Suffocating the ocean
Weren’t scientists warning us of a coming ice age only decades ago?
How does modern warming differ from past warming trends?
Welcome to the Anthropocene
What can a decade of western North American drought tell us about the future?
Signs of things to come? The 2012 North American heat wave
• The 2003 European heat wave
• Does a cold snap in Peoria invalidate global warming?
• A tempest in a greenhouse
• The vanishing snows of Kilimanjaro
• The last interglacial
• How to build a climate model
Profiles: James Hansen, Warren Washington, Stephen Schneider, and Susan Solomon
Comparing climate model predictions with observations
Regional vs global trends
Some climates disappear as others emerge
 “Fingerprints” distinguish human and natural impacts on climate

Part 2 Climate Change Projections
How sensitive is the climate?
Fossil-fuel emissions scenarios
The Faux Pause
Past IPCC projections—how did they do?
The next century
The geographical pattern of future warming
Tipping points, irreversibility, and abrupt climate change
Carbon-cycle feedbacks
Melting ice and rising sea level
Future changes in extreme weather
Stabilizing atmospheric CO2

Part 3 The Impacts of Climate Change
The rising impact of global warming
Is it time to sell that beach house?
Ecosystems
Coral reefs
The highway to extinction?
Too much and too little
Is warming from carbon dioxide leading to more air pollution?
War
Famine
Pestilence and death
Earth, wind, and fire
Too wet and too hot
The polar meltdown

Part 4 Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change
Is global warming the last straw for vulnerable ecosystems?
What is the best course for the coming century?
It’s the economy, stupid!
A finger in the dike
Keeping the water flowing
A hard row to hoe

Part 5 Solving Climate Change
Solving global warming
Where do all those emissions come from?
Keeping the power turned on
On the road again
Building green
Reducing industrial CO2 pollution
The water–energy nexus
Greener acres
Forests
Waste not, want watts?
Geoengineering
But what can I do about it?
Sustainability success stories
What’s your carbon footprint?
Global problems require international cooperation
Can we achieve sustainable development?
The ethics of climate change
The known unknowns and the unknown unknowns
The urgency of climate change

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