This topical textbook provides a bridge between technical and popular texts on global warming within the broader context of climate change. Written at an introductory level, it explains the interacting components of this system: what the greenhouse effect is; and how scientists seek to predict climate change. It makes accessible the technical and heavy science literature to the 'non-science' student.



Global warming is one of the major environmental problems facing the world today. But it is an issue surrounded by great contention because it is based largely on scientific...