The Discovery of Global Warming

Revised and Expanded Edition
2. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-674-03189-0
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 230 g

Reihe: New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine

The award-winning book is now revised and expanded. In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion—by way of unexpected twists and turns—was the story Spencer Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. Now he brings his award-winning account up to date, revised throughout to reflect the latest science and with a new conclusion that shows how the scientific consensus caught fire among the general world public, and how a new understanding of the human meaning of climate change spurred individuals and governments to action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weart, Spencer R.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie

Über Autor(innen)

Weart, Spencer R.
Spencer R. Weart is Director Emeritus of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.