Climate Change: Evaluating recent and future climate changeFrank Chambers, Michael Ogle Taylor & Francis US, 2002 - 464 pages This collection of papers is introduced by an overview of research into climate change. Each volume contains an introductory commentary presenting the major strengths and achievements of the papers, their weaknesses and limitations and points to follow-up work. |
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... cosmic ray flux and global cloud coverage – a missing link in solar - climate relationships 43 HENRIK SVENSMARK AND EIGIL FRIIS - CHRISTENSEN 77 Comment on ' Variation of cosmic ray flux and global cloud coverage – a missing link in ...
... cosmic ray flux and global cloud coverage – a missing link in solar - climate relationships 43 HENRIK SVENSMARK AND EIGIL FRIIS - CHRISTENSEN 77 Comment on ' Variation of cosmic ray flux and global cloud coverage – a missing link in ...
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Contents
an indicator of solar activity closely | 7 |
Variability of the solar cycle length during the past five centuries | 14 |
Comparison of proxy records of climate change and solar forcing | 33 |
PART 3 | 36 |
Variation of cosmic ray flux and global cloud coverage | 43 |
Comment on Variation of cosmic ray flux and global cloud | 56 |
geomagnetic aa index | 60 |
Climate forcings in the Industrial era | 69 |
PART 2 | 192 |
The Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period in the Sargasso Sea | 211 |
a global | 233 |
How warm was the Medieval Warm Period? | 258 |
Twentieth century climatic warming in China in the context | 276 |
Evidence from northwest European bogs shows Little Ice Age | 293 |
The natural breakdown of the present interglacial and | 317 |
how and when? | 330 |
Correction to 19731996 trends in depthaveraged | 84 |
Evaluating sunclimate relationships since the Little Ice Age | 90 |
Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the past | 110 |
Relative impacts of humaninduced climate change and natural | 119 |
Causes of twentiethcentury temperature change near | 128 |
Solar cycle length and 20th century Northern Hemisphere | 137 |
Excerpt from Causes of climate change over the past 1000 years | 146 |
Possible links between the solar radius variations and | 179 |
Solar cycle length hypothesis appears to support the IPCC | 342 |
are they plausible? | 357 |
Making mistakes when predicting shifts in species range | 371 |
Extract from Geomagnetic forcing of changes in climate | 380 |
Earths response to a variable sun | 401 |
Conclusions | 407 |
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