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OverviewEvidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Second Edition, includes updated data related to the causes of global climate change from experts in meteorology, geology, atmospheric physics, solar physics, geophysics, climatology, and computer modeling. This book objectively gathers and analyzes scientific data concerning patterns of past climate changes, influences of changes in ocean temperatures, the effect of solar variation on global climate, and the effect of CO2 on global climate. This analysis is then presented as counter-evidence to the theory that CO2 is the primary cause behind global warming. Increasingly, scientists are pointing to data which suggests that climate changes are a result of natural cycles, which have been occurring for thousands of years. Unfortunately, global warming has moved into the political realm without enough peer-reviewed research to fully validate and exclude other, more natural, causes of climate change. For example, there is an absence of any physical evidence that CO2 causes global warming, so the only argument for CO2 as the cause of warming rests entirely in computer modeling. Thus, the question becomes, how accurate are the computer models in predicting climate? What other variables could be missing from the models? In order to understand modern climate changes, we need to look at the past history of climate changes. Vast amounts of physical evidence of climate change over the past centuries and millennia have been gathered by scientists. Significant climate changes have clearly been going on for many thousands of years, long before the recent rise in atmospheric CO2 Evidence-Based Climate Science, Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Second Edition, documents past climate changes and presents physical evidence for possible causes. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Don Easterbrook (Professor Emeritus, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA)Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc Imprint: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc Edition: 2nd edition Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 27.60cm Weight: 1.200kg ISBN: 9780128045886ISBN 10: 0128045884 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 01 October 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPart I. Climatic Perspectives 1. Climate Perspectives Part II. Temperature Measurements 2. A Critical Look at Surface Temperature Records 3. Is the NASA Surface Temperature Record an Accurate Representation? 4. In the Climate Debate, Hear Both Sides 5. Southeast Australian Maximum Temperature Trends, 1887–2013: An Evidence-Based Reappraisal Part III. Extreme Weather Events 6. Weather Extremes Part IV. Polar Ice 7. Evidence That Antarctica Is Cooling, Not Warming 8. Temperature Fluctuations in Greenland and the Arctic Part V. Carbon Dioxide 9. Greenhouse Gases 10. Is CO2 Mitigation Cost Effective? Part VI. Oceans 11. Relationship of Multidecadal Global Temperatures to Multidecadal Oceanic Oscillations 12. Sea Level Changes as Observed in Nature 13. Ocean “Acidification Alarmism in Perspective Part VII. Solar Influences on Climate 14. Cause of Global Climate Changes: Correlation of Global Temperature, Sunspots, Solar Irradiance, Cosmic Rays, and Radiocarbon and Berylium Production Rates 15. Solar Changes and the Climate 16. The Sun's Role in Climate 17. The New Little Ice Age Has Started 18. Aspects of Solar Variability and Climate Response 19. The Notch-Delay Solar Hypothesis Part VIII. Climate Models 20. Correcting Problems With the Conventional Basic Calculation of Climate Sensitivity Part IX. Climate Predictions 21. Using Patterns of Recurring Climate Cycles to Predict Future Climate ChangesReviewsAuthor InformationDr. Don Easterbrook has done extensive research into the of global climate changes, global warming and cooling, as well as the cause of abrupt global climate changes at the end of the last Ice Age. He studies the relationship of 25-30 year glacial and ocean warming and cooling cycles to solar variation and global warming and cooling. Additionally, he has analyzed the correlation of Quaternary inter-hemispheric climate changes, the of radiocarbon marine reservoir values, Holocene glaciation of the Cascade Range, and the Holocene climate changes, otherwise known as The Little Ice Age. He has analyzed the tephra and lahar chronology of Mt. Baker, and has extensively used shorelines to determine isostatic uplift rates in the Puget Lowland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |