The global warming desk reference [electronic resource] / Bruce E. Johansen.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950-
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Global warming.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2001 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2002 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2002 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Preface: Diary of a Warm Winter vii
  • Introduction xiii
  • 1 A Sketch of the Problem 1
  • 2 The General Consensus on Global Warming 33
  • 3 Warmer Is Better; Richer Is Healthier: Global-warming Skeptics 83
  • 4 Icemelt: Glacial, Arctic, and Antarctic 123
  • 5 Warming Seas 153
  • 6 Flora and Fauna 183
  • 7 Human Health 209
  • 8 A Fact of Daily Life: Global Warming and Indigenous Peoples 221
  • 9 Greenhouse Gases and the Weather: Now, and in the Year 2100 231
  • 10 Possible Solutions 251
  • Postscript 275
  • Bibliography 281
  • Index 345.