00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862157905 Buklod 20240215115212.0 g||| | || || ta 190226s2007 xx ab rb |||| u|eng d 9781598295207 (hbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00033089621 BC-70823 Fastbooks Educational Supply, Inc. Php2,195 DPS Faculty OLC BAG rda eng QC 981.8 G56 W38 2007 Watts, Robert G. author. Global warming and the future of the earth Robert G. Watts. [Place of publication not identified] Morgan & Claypool Publishers [2007] vi, 113 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Synthesis lectures on energy and the environment, technology, science, and society #1 Includes bibliographical references. "The book begins with the important distinction between weather and climate, followed by data showing how carbon dioxide has increased and the incontrovertible evidence that it is caused by burning fossil fuels (i.e., coal, oil, and natural gas). The author also addresses the inevitable skepticism that global warming arouses and offers a number of responses to the global warming skeptics. After dealing with the skeptics, the author analyzes both the current and future effects of global warming. These future effects are based on scenarios or "storylines" put forth by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. In closing, the author addresses the controversial (and grim) suggestion that we have already passed the "tipping point, "which is the time after which, regardless of our future actions, global warming will cause considerable hardship on human society."--Book jacket. Global warming. Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric. Greenhouse gases Environmental aspects. Climatic changes. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN QC 981.8 G56 W38 2007 Book