Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming

ISBN-13: 9780123859563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str.

Don Easterbrook

Opis

Global warming and human-induced climate change are perhaps the most important scientific issues of our time. These issues continue to be debated in the scientific community and in the media without true consensus about the role of greenhouse gas emissions as a contributing factor. Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data opposing CO₂ emissions as the primary source of global warming 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 to clearly and objectively present counter-global-warming evidence not embraced by proponents of CO₂.

• An unbiased, evidence-based analysis of the scientific data concerning climate change and global warming
• Authored by 8 of the world's leading climate scientists, each with more than 25 years of experience in the field
• Extensive analysis of the physics of CO₂ as a greenhouse gas and its role in global warming
• Comprehensive citations, references, and bibliography
• Adaptation strategies are presented as alternative reactions to greenhouse gas emission reductions

Spis treści

GEOLOGIC PERSPECTIVES 1. Geologic evidence of recurring climate cycles and their implications for the cause of global climate changes 2. Evidence for synchronous global climatic events: Cosmogenic exposure ages of glaciations TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS 3. A critical look at surface temperature records 4. 2010-the hottest year on record? THE ROLE OF OCEANS 5. Relationship of Multidecadal Global Temperatures to Multidecadal Oceanic Oscillations 6. Setting the frames of expected future sea level changes by exploring past geological sea level records 7. The Maldives: a measure of sea level changes and sea level ethics 8. Arctic sea ice 9. Have increases in CO₂ contributed to the recent large upswing in Atlantic basin major hurricanes since 1995?

SOLAR ACTIVITY 10. Solar changes and the climate 11. The current solar minimum and consequences for climate 12. Total solar irradiance satellite composites and their phenomenological effect on climate 13. Global brightening and climate sensitivity 14. The relationship of sunspot cycles to gravitational stresses on the sun

MODELING 15. A simple model to examine the relationship between atmospheric CO₂ concentration, and ocean and land surface temperatures

O autorze

Dr. 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.