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The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition: 0 (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) de Spencer R. Weart
Descripción - Críticas 'Charting the evolution and confirmation of the theory [of global warming], Weart dissects the interwoven threads of research and reveals the political and societal subtexts that colored scientists' views and the public reception their work received.' - Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times Book Review' Reseña del editor The award-winning book is now revised and expanded. In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion-by way of unexpected twists and turns-was the story Spencer Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. Now he brings his award-winning account up to date, revised throughout to reflect the latest science and with a new conclusion that shows how the scientific consensus caught fire among the general world public, and how a new understanding of the human meaning of climate change spurred individuals and governments to action. Contraportada A Capricious Beast Ever since the days when he had trudged around fossil lake basins in Nevada for his doctoral thesis, Wally Broecker had been interested in sudden climate shifts. The reported sudden jumps of CO2 in Greenland ice cores stimulated him to put this interest into conjunction with his oceanographic interests. The result was a surprising and important calculation. The key was what Broecker later described as a 'great conveyor belt''of seawater carrying heat northward. . . . The energy carried to the neighborhood of Iceland was 'staggering,' Broecker realized, nearly a third as much as the Sun sheds upon the entire North Atlantic. If something were to shut down the conveyor, climate would change across much of the Northern Hemisphere... There was reason to believe a shutdown could happen swiftly. In many regions the consequences for climate would be spectacular. Broecker was foremost in taking this disagreeable news to the public. In 1987 he wrote that we had been treating the greenhouse effect as a 'cocktail hour curiosity, ' but now 'we must view it as a threat to human beings and wildlife.' The climate system was a capricious beast, he said, and we were poking it with a sharp stick. Biografía del autor Spencer R. Weart is Director Emeritus of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.
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- Name: The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition: 0 (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
- Autor: Spencer R. Weart
- Categoria: Libros,Ciencias, tecnología y medicina,Ciencias de la Tierra
- Tamaño del archivo: 8 MB
- Tipos de archivo: PDF Document
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- Idioma: Español
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