Evidence-based climate science : data opposing CO2 emissions as the primary source of global warming /

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Edition:Second edition.
Imprint:Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, 2016.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:Atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.
Global warming.
Climatic changes.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Climatic changes.
Global warming.
Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11267336
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Other authors / contributors:Easterbrook, Don J., 1935- editor.
ISBN:9780128045893
0128045892
9780128045886
0128045884
Notes:Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed October 5, 2016).
Summary:Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Second Edition, includes updated data related to the causes of global climate change from experts in meteorology, geology, atmospheric physics, solar physics, geophysics, climatology, and computer modeling. This book 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. This analysis is then presented as counter-evidence to the theory that CO2 is the primary cause behind global warming. Increasingly, scientists are pointing to data which suggests that climate changes are a result of natural cycles, which have been occurring for thousands of years. Unfortunately, global warming has moved into the political realm without enough peer-reviewed research to fully validate and exclude other, more natural, causes of climate change. For example, there is an absence of any physical evidence that CO2 causes global warming, so the only argument for CO2 as the cause of warming rests entirely in computer modeling. Thus, the question becomes, how accurate are the computer models in predicting climate? What other variables could be missing from the models? In order to understand modern climate changes, we need to look at the past history of climate changes. Vast amounts of physical evidence of climate change over the past centuries and millennia have been gathered by scientists. Significant climate changes have clearly been going on for many thousands of years, long before the recent rise in atmospheric CO2 Evidence-Based Climate Science, Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Second Edition, documents past climate changes and presents physical evidence for possible causes.
Other form:Print version: 0128045884 9780128045886