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Global Warming

Global warming and the resulting climate change is one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world community. Global Warming: the Complete Briefing is the most comprehensive guide available to the subject. A world-renowned expert, Sir John Houghton explores the scientific basis of global ...

By Cambridge University

Rising Above Global Warming

This book is a children’s book on global warming with illustrations. Oddly, it is the first of its kind. The subject of global warming when looked at through the lens of hopelessness is a dark issue, but when the topic is dealt with by creating empowerment in the next generation, the outcome keeps most ...

By A-Argus Better Book Publishers LLC.

Global Warming: Facts vs. Faith

Walter Cunningham has enjoyed careers in the United States Marine Corps, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and private industry, including 12 years as a venture ...

By The Heartland Institute

Ecosocialism and Climate Justice

This book investigates the broader climate movement to contextualise the role played by its climate justice wing, focussing specifically on the theoretical and practical contributions of ...

By Taylor & Francis Group

Global Warming

Global Warming: Engineering Solutions goes beyond the discussion of what global warming is, and offers complete concrete solutions that can be used to help prevent global warming. Innovative engineering solutions are needed to reduce the effects of global ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Global Warming and Energy Policy

This volume, proceedings of a symposium on global warming and energy policy, explores two major environmental concerns that arise from fuel use: the prospect that the globe will become warmer as a result of emissions of carbon dioxide, and the effect upon health of the fine particles emitted as combustion ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Unstoppable Solar Cycles: Rethinking Global Warming

When Erik the Red first arrived in Greenland, the fertile green land was perfect for farming. But within a few centuries the thriving Viking settlements had been wiped out by global ...

By The Heartland Institute

Global Warming and Economic Development

Three questions need to be addressed when discussing the global warming issue. First, is a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary? Second, if the answer is yes, what is the optimal level of CO2 emissions? Third, who should be held responsible for reducing CO2 emissions? This book addresses these ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Global Warming - Myth or Reality?

In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global Warming: Myth or Reality? Marcel Leroux seeks to separate fact from fiction in this critical debate from a climatological perspective. Beginning with a review of the dire hypotheses for ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 4th Edition

and highlights the need for action on global warming. Is there evidence for climate changing due to ...

By Cambridge University

UNEP 2008 Annual Report

This summary of UNEP"s activities in 2008 provides an overview of the organization’s contribution to the fight against climate change in a year in which unequivocal evidence established that global warming is the defining challenge of our era. The report also looks at the broad range of other activities ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific

The human drama of climate change will largely be played out in Asia, where over 60 per cent of the world's population, around four billion people, live. This, the fifth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, asks will global warming send Asia and the Pacific 'Up in ...

By Earthprint Ltd

UNEP 2007 Annual Report

This summary of UNEP"s activities in 2007 provides an overview of the organization’s contribution to the fight against climate change in a year in which unequivocal evidence established that global warming is the defining challenge of our era. The report also looks at the broad range of other activities ...

By Earthprint Ltd

YMT 2004 - Making sustainability connections

Sustainability principles may be advancing in boardrooms across the world, but progress is slow. Despite a growing awareness of the impact the global population is having on finite resources, global warming and health pandemics, a profound shift is needed to move toward sustainable business practices. To ...

By Earthprint Ltd

The Gulf Stream

Amid contemporary scenarios of potential climatic catastrophes and global warming that might be imagined to bring a new ice age, the powerful image of the Gulf Stream rising from the Florida Straits and flowing to the north Atlantic inevitably provokes questions about its ecological significance and whether it ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Africa - Up in smoke? The second report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development

Global warming is already hitting Africa. This is increasing the vulnerability of poor communities, especially farmers, who are having to cope with not only more droughts but also sudden, violent and unpredictable rainfall. “Africa – Up in Smoke?” is the second report from the Working Group on Climate ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Global Warming - The Research Challenges

This book presents the latest results of global warming researches focusing on Japanese and international efforts. In 2002, Japan initiated "Global Warming Research Initiatives" lead by the Council for Science and Technology Policy, which aims to harmonize the national research activities and projects. This ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Climate Change Litigation

In the absence of mandatory requirements on companies and governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, advocacy groups, public authorities and individuals are turning their attention to legal mechanisms as part of their efforts to compel corporations and governments to address global warming issues. ...

By Presidian Legal Publications

Up in Smoke? Threats from, and responses to, the impact of global warming on human development

Produced by The Working Group on Climate Change and Development, this first-time report says global warming threatens to reverse human progress, and make the international targets on halving global poverty by 2015, known as the Millennium Development Goals, unattainable.Written and compiled by Andrew Simms from ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Analysing Seasonal Health Data

. With global warming increasing the intensity of seasonal weather patterns around the world, a review of ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

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