Greenhouse Effect And Global Climate Change Management
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Environmental problems and climate change . 3. Global effects of climate change. 4. Impacts of global warming. 5. Forests, wildlife and climate change. 6. Agriculture and climate change. 7. Industry and climate change. Bibliography. Index.
"The past several years have seen the emergence of a new interest in the issue of global climate within the scientific community. Until quite recently, a century year old theory about man\'s emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the role of water vapor and global warming has remained largely unexplored. With increasing evidence on growth in greenhouse fast emissions, and with the advent of computer models to simulate global climate, the scientific community has been examining in greater detail the complex issues involved. As more and more scientists studied the Greenhouse Effect and became convinced that there was indeed a potential for a significant global warming.
EPA\'s efforts to response to this request began with workshops composed of atmospheric scientist and composed of atmospheric scientists and specialists in such fields as ecology, hydrology, forestry, and agriculture. With the help of these scientists. EPA began the process of responding to Congress selecting climate scenarios, and identifying topics for impact analysis.
The first step involved selecting future climate "scenarios". We could have used historical climate patterns a panel of experts, or other methods. Consistent with the approach adopted by the National Academy of Science and other scientific experts, we chose to use Global Circulation Models (GCM\'s). These atmospheric models are complex mathematical representations of the ocean-atmospheric relationships that determine our global and regional climate. With hundreds or even thousands of equations variables like evaporation, precipitation, cloud coverage, wind direction and temperature are simulated.
This book will be immense help to all those contemplating to acquire expert knowledge of greenhouse effects and global climate change management." (jacket)
