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The atlas of climate change : mapping the world's greatest challenge
- Title
- The atlas of climate change : mapping the world's greatest challenge / Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing.
- Author
- Dow, Kirstin, 1963-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press ; Brighton : Myriad Editions, c2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Downing, Thomas E.
- Description
- 112 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 25 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Climate change
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-109) and index.
- Contents
- Signs of change -- Warning signs --Polar changes -- Glacial retreat -- Everyday extremes -- Forcing change -- The greenhouse effect -- The climate system -- Interpreting past climates -- Forecasting future climates -- Driving climate change -- Emissions past and present -- Fossil fuels -- Methane and other gases -- Transportation -- Disrupting the carbon balance -- Agriculture -- Expected consequences -- Disrupted ecosystems -- Threatened water supplies -- Food security -- Threats to health -- Rising sea levels -- Cities at risk -- Cultural losses -- Responding to change -- International action -- Meeting Kyoto targets -- Carbon trading -- Financing responses -- Local commitment -- Carbon dioxide and economic growth -- Renewable energy -- Adapting to change -- Commiting to solutions -- Personal action -- Public action -- Climate change data -- Data table.
- Call Number
- JBE 18-897
- ISBN
- 9780520255586 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0520255585 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC
- 182545714
- Author
- Dow, Kirstin, 1963-
- Title
- The atlas of climate change : mapping the world's greatest challenge / Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press ; Brighton : Myriad Editions, c2007.
- Edition
- Rev. and updated ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-109) and index.
- Added Author
- Downing, Thomas E.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 18-897