Global Warming Understanding the Forecast

by Archer, David

• ISBN13: 9780470943410
• ISBN10: 0470943416
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-21
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Archer's Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast 2nd Edition, is the first real text to present the science and policy surrounding climate change at the right level. Accompanying videos, simulations and instructional support makes it easier to build a syllabus to improve and create new material on climate change. Archer's polished writing style makes the text entertaining while the improved pedagogy helps better understand key concepts, ideas and terms. This edition has been revised and reformulated with a new chapter template of short chapter introductions, study questions at the end, and critical thinking puzzlers throughout. Also a new asset for the BCS was created that will give ideas for assignments and topics for essays and other projects. Furthermore, a number of interactive models have been built to help understand the science and systems behind the processes.

Author Biography

David Archer is the author of Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, published by John Wiley and Sons and a book for popular audiences called The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 years of the Earth's Climate, published by Princeton University Press and winner of the 2009 Walter P. Kistler Award, The Foundation for the Future.
Since 1993, Archer has been a professor in the department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and has worked on a wide range of topics pertaining to the global carbon cycle and its relation to the global climate, with a special focus on ocean sedimentary processes such as CaCO3 dissolution and methane hydrate formation and their impact on the evolution of atmospheric CO2.
He currently teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry and global geochemical cycles.

Table of Contents

Online Models.

Preface.

1 Humankind and Climate.

Part I The Greenhouse Effect.

2 Blackbody Radiation.

3 The Layer Model.

4 Greenhouse Gases.

5 What Holds the Atmosphere Up?

6 Weather and Climate.

7 Feedbacks.

Part II The Carbon Cycle.

8 Carbon on Earth.

9 Fossil Fuels and Energy.

10 The Perturbed Carbon Cycle.

Part III The Forecast.

11 The Smoking Gun.

12 Potential Climate Impacts.

13 Decisions, Decisions.

Glossary.

Index.