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The Discovery of Global Warming - Spencer R. Weart

The Discovery of Global Warming

Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2004 | New edition
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-01637-8 (ISBN)
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A capricious beast ever since the days when he had trudged around fossil lake basins in Nevada for his doctoral thesis, Broecker had been interested in sudden climate shifts. Here is his most surprising and important calculation.
THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION.. In 2001 a panel representing virtually all the world's governments and climate scientists announced that they had reached a consensus: 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 consensus itself was at least a century in the making. The story of how scientists reached their conclusion--by way of unexpected twists and turns and in the face of formidable intellectual, financial, and political obstacles--is told for the first time in The Discovery of Global Warming, Spencer R. Weart lucidly explains the emerging science, introduces us to the major players, and shows us how the Earth's irreducibly complicated climate system was mirrored by the global scientific community that studied it. Unlike familiar tales of Science Triumphant, this book portrays scientists working on bits and pieces of a topic so complex that they could never achieve full certainty--yet so important to human survival that provisional answers were essential. Weart unsparingly depicts the conflicts and mistakes, and how they sometimes led to fruitful results. His book reminds us that scientists do not work in isolation, but interact in crucial ways with the political system and with the general public. The book not only reveals the history of global warming, but also analyzes the nature of modern scientific work as it confronts the most difficult questions about the Earth's future.
Reihe/Serie New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Zusatzinfo 4 line illustrations
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Gewicht 274 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 0-674-01637-8 / 0674016378
ISBN-13 978-0-674-01637-8 / 9780674016378
Zustand Neuware
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