Experimenting on a small planet : a history of scientific discoveries, a future of climate change and global warming / William W. Hay.
Hay, William W., 1934-
2021
QC981 .H39 2021eb
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Title Experimenting on a small planet : a history of scientific discoveries, a future of climate change and global warming / William W. Hay.
Author Hay, William W., 1934-
Edition Third edition.
ISBN 9783030763398 (electronic bk.)
3030763390 (electronic bk.)
3030763382
9783030763381
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76339-8
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-76339-8 doi
Call Number QC981 .H39 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 551.6
Summary 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 understand how the climate system works. He explores how humans are unintentionally conducting a grand uncontrolled experiment which is leading to unanticipated changes. We follow the twisting path of seemingly unrelated discoveries in physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and even mathematics to learn how they led to our present knowledge of how our planet works. He explains why the weather is becoming increasingly chaotic as our planet warms at a rate far faster than at any time in its geologic past. He speculates on possible future outcomes, and suggests that nature itself may make some unexpected course corrections. Although the book is written for the layman with little knowledge of science or mathematics, it includes information from many diverse fields to provide even those actively working in the field of climatology with a broader view of this developing drama. Experimenting on a Small Planet is a must read for anyone having more than a casual interest in global warming and climate change - one of the most important and challenging issues of our time. This new edition includes actual data from climate science into 2021. Numerous Powerpoint slides can be downloaded to allow lecturers and teachers to more effectively use the book as a basis for climate change education.
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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. Whats At The Bottom of Alices 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 Earths 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 Earths Atmosphere
Chapter 27. The Circulation of Earths 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.

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