1. Introduction; 2. Radiation and the Earth's energy balance; 3. The elements of the climate; 4. The measurement of climate change; 5. Statistics, significance and cycles; 6. The natural causes of climate change; 7. Human activities; 8. Evidence of climate change; 9. Consequences of climate change; 10. Modelling the climate; 11. Predicting climate change; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.
Updated textbook on climate change for courses in meteorology, oceanography, environmental science, earth science and geography.
William Burroughs is a professional science writer, and has published many books on weather and climate including Climate Change in Prehistory, Does the Weather Really Matter?, Weather Cycles, The Climate Revealed, and Watching the World's Weather (all with Cambridge University Press). In 2005 he received the Michael Hunt Award from the Royal Meteorological Society for his work in popularizing meteorology.
'… a recommended read for the informed layman and student seeking a
wider background in this topical but complex field.' Grant Bigg,
Weather
'The book is well written, contains practically no mathematics and
yet manages to explain, in a clear and attractive style, the
subtleties of the subject … I recommend it to everybody interested
in the climate of our earth.' Michael Hantel, Meteoroligsche
Zeitschrift
'… the book enthusiastically achieves its aims of not
oversimplifying but explaining the complexities of what is well
established and unknown about the climate system for a wider
audience …' Claire Goodess, International Journal of
Climatology
'Burroughs is to be congratulated for having written a serious and
up-to-date book that competently surveys many highly technical
aspects of modern climate science but manages to do so in a
non-mathematical manner.' American Meteorological Society
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