Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of ClimatologySpringer Science & Business Media, 2006 M08 30 - 510 pages In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global Warming: Myth or Reality? Marcel Leroux seeks to separate fact from fiction in this critical debate from a climatological perspective. Beginning with a review of the dire hypotheses for climate trends, the author describes the history of the 1998 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and many subsequent conferences. He discusses the main conclusions of the three IPCC reports and the predicted impact on global temperatures, rainfall, weather and climate, while highlighting the mounting confusion and sensationalism of reports in the media. After taking a hard look at the reality of the greenhouse effect, the ‘evidence’ from climate models, and the models’ limitations, Leroux postulates alternate causes of climate change and analyzes the trends for global temperatures, rainfall patterns, and sea level. He poses the ‘heretical’ question if warming may be considered a benefit in some regions. Finally Leroux suggests a number of priorities for climatologists to better understand processes of climate change, to integrate them into climate models, and to predict accurately future changes in climate. This timely and controversial book lays out the scientific case of the sizable skeptical scientific community who challenge the accepted wisdom. |
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... Antarctic glaciation 193 9.7.1 The behaviour of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet . 194 9.8 Glaciation in the north . . . 197 9.8.1 The Greenland inlandsis . 197 9.8.2 Dynamics of the northern glaciation . 198 199 9.9 Deglaciation in the ...
... Antarctic 10.5 Thermal and dynamic evolution in the Arctic . 10.5.1 Thermal evolution in the Arctic .. 207 208 210 213 214 215 216 218 219 222 224 226 229 230 10.5.2 The aerological dynamic of the Arctic . . 233 10.5.3 The ...
... Antarctic Dome , and the dynamical influence of the Andean Cordillera on warm air advection towards western Antarctica , mainly the Antarctic Peninsula 196 39 40 41 42 43 Summer polar insolation at 85 ° N and 85 ° S during the last 30 ...
... Antarctic Ice Sheet World Climate Conference World Commission on Environment and Development World Climate Research Programme World Health Organization World Meteorological Organization 1 Introduction That's why I'm talking to you . You ...
... Antarctic ozone hole, shepherds, their sheep, and also rabbits, are going blind'! (L'Express, February 1992, echoing the New York Times, July 1991, and Newsweek, December 1991). What do we say now about the deluge of campaigns to `save ...
Contents
3 | 41 |
396 | 42 |
3 | 47 |
The Third Report of the IPCC 2001 | 54 |
Science media politics | 70 |
The subject the players and the principle basis | 100 |
10 | 106 |
4 | 108 |
Present temperatures | 207 |
3 | 234 |
The 1970s | 241 |
Weather rainfall and drought 243 | 242 |
65 | 262 |
5 | 272 |
The politicians and economists | 284 |
3 | 298 |
17 | 116 |
6 | 120 |
4 | 127 |
4 | 133 |
The general circulation of the atmosphere | 145 |
1 | 153 |
22 | 156 |
Past climates | 173 |
3 | 186 |
The influence of scientists upon the media | 193 |
Climate and aerological units | 305 |
The North Atlantic aerological unit 309 | 308 |
The North Pacific aerological unit | 351 |
Conclusion | 404 |
Sea level and circulation | 414 |
3222 | 426 |
6 | 439 |
General conclusion | 443 |
Bibliography and references | 471 |
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