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Climate Change: Science and Impacts. The Earth’s Climate. The Earth’s Greenhouse Efect1. Climate change is altering temperature, precipitation, and sea levels, and will adversely impact human and natural systems, including water resources, human settlements and health, ecosystems, and biodiversity.
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It will discuss the basics of climate science and the phenomenon of climate change, before elaborating on two key concepts relevant for climate change responses: mitigation and adaptation. This material will be used to better understand how these concepts are applied in an urban context.
Climate change science seeks to understand the physical, chemical, biological and geological processes, and the interactions among these processes, that produce climate. The scales of interest range from local to global and from weeks or months to millions of years. Changes in climate, both temporally and spatially,
A world-renowned expert, Sir John Houghton explores the scientific basis of global warming and the likely impacts of climate change on human society, before addressing the action that could be taken by governments, by industry and by individuals to mitigate the effects.
To understand climate change, it is crucial to use a scientific definition of climate, understand the difference between weather and climate, and study changes in the state of the climate that persist for an extended period. It is also important to understand how the natural factors such as latitude, altitude, reflectivity of
“This timely, informative, and well-written book does an excellent job of explaining, in language accessible to everyone, the scientiûc basis for our current understanding of global warming and climate change, as well as societal implications and the political barriers to sound, rational policy.
