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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... greenhouse effect . 174 9.2 9.2.1 Past and present levels of greenhouse gases : are they comparable ? Evolution during the last millennium . . 175 176 9.2.2 Evolution during the Holocene period . . 177 9.3 9.4 The relationship between ...
... greenhouse gases . The interaction between science and politics , and the definition of ecology ( the science of nature ) and of the ecological movement , with its militant , politicised philosophy censuring the effects of human ...
... greenhouse effect (as does the IPCC), we look at the basic principles of radiation, the respective contributions of the so-called greenhouse gases, and the uncertainties surrounding the part played by clouds and aerosols. Then we ...
... gases , for example methane and carbon dioxide , could also act as a barrier ... gases on surface temperature levels and this work led to further advances by ... greenhouse theory , taken up by Weart in 1997 , is +0.2 -0.2 1880 10 years ...
... gas in the atmosphere could contribute to progressive warming in its lower layers , especially at high latitudes ... greenhouse effect of gases introduced by humankind . Opinions were very mixed on whether preventive and restrictive ...
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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