California's extraordinary ecological and economic diversity has brought it prosperity, pollution, and overpopulation. These factors and the state's national and international ties make California an essential test case for the impact of global climate change—temperature increases, water shortages, more ultraviolet radiation. The scientists in this forward-looking volume give their best estimates of what the future holds. Beginning with an overview by Joseph Knox, the book discusses the greenhouse effect, the latest climate modeling capabilities, the implications of climate change for water resources, agriculture, biological ecosystems, human behavior, and energy. The warning inherent in a scenario of unchecked population growth and energy use in California applies to residents of the entire planet. The sobering conclusions related here include recommendations for research that will help us all prepare for potential climate change.
California's extraordinary ecological and economic diversity has brought it prosperity, pollution, and overpopulation. These factors and the state's national and international ties make California an essential test case for the impact of global climate ch
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Global Climate Change and California
Potential Impacts and Responses
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Potential Impacts and Responses
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ONE Global Climate Change: Impacts on California An Introduction and Overview
- TWO Greenhouse Gases: Changing the Global Climate
- THREE Our Changing Atmosphere: Trace Gases and the Greenhouse Effect
- FOUR The Quest for Reliable Regional Scenarios of Climate Change
- FIVE Global Climate Change and California’s Water Resources
- SIX Global Climate Change and California Agriculture
- SEVEN Global Climate Change and California’s Natural Ecosystems
- EIGHT Global Warming from an Energy Perspective
- NINE Studying the Human Dimensions of Global Climate Change
- TEN Epilogue
- CONTRIBUTORS
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