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Indicators of Climate Change
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Indicators of Climate Change focuses on the root causes of global warming and climate change. The book includes detailed discussions on the indicators of climate change, highlighting the rapidity of the changes. Indicators discussed in this book include the rise in the average atmospheric temperature, ocean heat, rising sea levels, melting ice sheets and glaciers, changes in plant adaption, changes in insect adaption, and weather pattern changes. The book also highlights fossil fuels, the root cause of climate change, and the urgency of the problem.
- Provides an all-embracing look at the main cause and many indicators of climate change
- Written by world experts in the fields of climate change, giving readers the most up-to-date state of each topic
- Contains copious lists of references so that readers will be able to further their studies
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Yes, you can access Indicators of Climate Change by Trevor Letcher in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Environmental Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Indicators of Climate Change
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Causes of climate change
- 2 Tracking Earth's warming: from the surface air to abyssal ocean
- 3 Rising sea levels
- 4 Arctic sea ice
- 5 Antarctic sea ice and climate change
- 6 Glaciers and climate change
- 7 Ocean current changes
- 8 Ocean acidification
- 9 Permafrost and climate change
- 10 Extreme weather and climate change
- 11 Changes in coral reef ecosystems as an indication of climate and global change
- 12 Indicators and predictions of climate change
- 13 Mapping marine foundation to changing climate
- 14 Effects of climate change on intertidal rocky shore ecosystems
- 15 Climate change and biodiversity
- 16 Invasive plants and climate change
- 17 Patagonian marine invertebrates facing climate change
- Index
- Back Cover