This book takes a dispassionate look at the physics and chemistry behind the phenomena of global warming, using numerical calculations where possible to evaluate the present and future effects of our fossil fuel burning. Relatively simple science explains fully the warming and the carbon dioxide growth which has happened over the last century. Extending the same calculations to predicting the future suggests that a very modest warming of less than a degree centigrade can be expected in the next hundred years. The sea is shown to be absorbing more carbon dioxide than is to be expected,...