Sir John Houghton CBE, FRS is a former Chairman of the Scientific Assessment Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Chairman of the UK's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, Vice President of the World Meteorological Organisation, President of the Royal Meteorological Society, and Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Oxford University. He was Chief Executive of the UK Meteorological Office from 1983 to his retirement in 1991. As well as the previous editions of this book, he is author of The Physics of Atmospheres (Cambridge University Press, in three editions), and has published numerous research papers and contributed to many influential research documents.
Inhaltsangabe
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 for 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 avoid dangerous climate change 11. Energy and transport for the future 12. The global village Glossary Index.
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 for 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 avoid dangerous climate change 11. Energy and transport for the future 12. The global village Glossary Index.
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