TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dawson, Brian
AU  - Spannagle, Matt
TI  - Complete guide to climate change
SN  - 0415477891
U1  - 333.7 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London & New York
PB  - Routledge
N1  - CONTENTS List of illustrations  vii Preface  ix Acknowledgments  xi Adaptation  1 Aerosols 6 Agriculture and food supply impacts,  9 Albedo  14 Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 20 Biodiversity impacts  27 Biofuels  35 Biosequestration  42 Carbon capture and storage  53 Carbon cycle  59 Carbon dioxide (CO2)  66 Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)  72 Carbon sinks  73 Carbon tax  74 Clean Development Mechanism (COM)  78 Climate change feedbacks  88 Climate change impacts  96 Climate sensitivity  103 Coastal zone impacts  106 Dangerous climate change  112 El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)  119 Emissions intensity  121 Emissions per capita  128 Emissions trading  136 Energy efficiency  146 Extreme weather events  156 Finance and insurance  162 Fossil fuels  170 Future emissions trends  179 Global dimming  188 Global warming  190 Global warming potentials 194 Greenhouse effect 196 Greenhouse gas inventories 199 Greenhouse gases 207 Health impacts 212 Ice sheets and glaciers 219 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 224 Joint Implementation (JI) 229 Kyoto Protocol 236 Land carbon sinks 249 Marine impacts 258 Methane (CH4) 263 Methane hydrates 270 Milankovich cycles 275 Mitigation 278 Nitrous oxide (N2O) 288 North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)  292 Nuclear power 293 Ocean carbon sinks 302 Ozone 307 Polar impacts 312 Radiative forcing 319 Renewable energy 323 Sea level rise 331 Socioeconomic impacts 336 Solar power 345 Stabilization targets 353 Synthetic gases 360 Technology, structural change and organizations'  366 Thermohaline 375 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)  380 Water impacts 392 Wind power 399 Bibliography 407 Index 426
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