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Despite this, there are scientific facts about global warming that are not in dispute. Climate has changed when the planet received more or less sunlight due to subtle shifts in its orbit, as the atmosphere or surface changed, or when the suns energy varied. Here is our list of the 12 best books on global warming. A global warming primer national center for science education. However, the concept of global warming is quite controversial. Throughout its long history, earth has warmed and cooled time and again. The book also makes a clear argument why massive civil disobedience is the only way forward to make this. Average temperatures around the world have risen by 0. Adaptasi terhadap dampak perubahan iklim masyarakat pesisir. Whether the cause is natural or humandriven, global warming is a serious issue that everyone should be aware of. The policy director for the optimum population trust, the environmental thinktank, discusses books on global warming. Now, in the politically incorrect guidetm to global warming and environmentalism, christopher c. While travelling accross twelve countries, jeff goodell weaves personal stories, investigative journalism and scientific facts into a compelling narrative. Most people are still unaware of global warming and do not consider it to be a big problem in years to.
Global warmings increasingly visible impacts environmental. This book, climate change and global warming, brings together the engineers, scientists, socialists and policymakers of the world to critically look at various aspects of climate change, and it is an attempt to look at the facts. This book presents the stateofthescience fundamentals on the origin of global warming and other related technologies that can be implemented to reduce human impact as well as to present novel. Because global warming does not cause uniform warming in all locations and because many other changes in climate are occurring, scientists often prefer to speak of global climate change rather than of global warming when referring to the whole complex of changes being caused by.
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