Climate Change

The Root Causes and Ways to Overcome Climate Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-443-32834-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

Climate Change: The Root Causes and Ways to Overcome Climate Change focuses on the underlying cause of global warming and investigates the other possible causes of global warming. This book will also evaluate ways to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. This book will include a discussion on atmospheric chemistry and the effect of CO2 in the atmosphere, the influence of ozone on global warming, a history of the earth’s climate, solar radiation changes and global warming, the effect of space weather on global warming, agricultural practices and global warming, and the effect of the Earth’s movements on global warming.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Letcher, Trevor

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change
3. Ozone and Climate Change
4. A History of the Earth's Changing Climate
5. Molecular Modeling of Climate Change
6. Contributing Factors to Climate Change: variation in the Earth's movement
7. Contributing Factors to Climate Change
8. Contributing Factors to Climate Change and Global Warming: atmospheric aerosols
9. Contributing Factors to Climate Change and Global Warming: solar radiation change
10. Contributing Factors to Climate Change and Global Warming: space weather and cosmic rays
11. Contributing Factors to Global Warming: Agricultural practices
12. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: renewable energy
13. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: Forestation
14. Ways to Reduce the Effects of climate change: Carbon Capture and Sequestration
15. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: Transport Issues
16. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: Climate Engineering

Über Autor(innen)

Letcher, Trevor
Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.