The Greenhouse effect, climatic change, and ecosystems
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The Greenhouse effect, climatic change, and ecosystems
（SCOPE, 29）
Published on behalf of the Scientific Committee on the Problems of the Environment of the International Council of Scientific Unions by Wiley, 1989, c1986
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Bibliogreaphy: p. 514-521
Includes index
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Description
This is the result of the first international scientific assessment of the consequences of the continuing increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere which modify the radiactive balance of the atmosphere. It addresses a number of questions which have been of major concern in recent years. These include the projection of energy use and increased emission of carbon dioxide by fossil fuel burning; the natural sources and sinks of carbon dioxide and their modification by deforestation and changing land use; the expected increase in the level of other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere; possible climatic change and its detection; sea level change and its detection and the overall response of terrestrial ecosystems. The book summarizes our current knowledge of this important subject and presents the main uncertainties and controversies that remain. Scientists drawn from a number of disciplines contribute their own perspectives to the analysis of the problem, making the book of interest to meteorologists, climatologists, environmental scientists and energy researchers.
Table of Contents
- The Greenhouse Effect, Climatic Change, and Ecosystems
- How Is Man Changing the Composition of the Atmosphere?
- Emission of CO2 Into the Atmosphere
- How Much CO2 Will Remain in the Atmosphere?
- Other Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols
- A Warmer World?
- How Will Climate Change?
- Empirical Climate Studies
- Changing the Sea Level
- The Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems
- The Effects of CO2 Climatic Change on Agriculture
- CO2, Climatic Change and Forest Ecosystems
- Increased CO2 and Climatic Change on Terrestrial Ecosystems.
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