Climate Change in Context in 2 Vols. Book

The goal of Climate Change: In Context is to help high-school and early college-age students understand the essential facts and deeper cultural connections of topics and issues related to the scientific study of climate change and its impacts on humanity. The relationship of science to complex ethical and social considerations is evident, for example, when considering the political and economic impacts of climate change related to human activity. The data clearly and strongly convince the vast majority of scientists that unnatural global climate change is happening and that it is almost certain that it is due to anthropogenic activity (caused by humans). This book reflects that scientific consensus and expands the discussion from the question of whether climate change is real to the question of what should be done about it. In an attempt to enrich the reader's understanding of the mutually impacting relationship between science and culture, as space allows we have included primary sources that enhance the content of In Context entries. In keeping with the philosophy that much of the benefit from using primary sources derives from the reader's own process of inquiry, the contextual material introducing each primary source provides an unobtrusive introduction and springboard to critical thought. Contents: Volume 1 Abrupt Climate Change Acid Rain Adaptation Aerosols Africa: Climate Change Impacts Agriculture: Contribution to Climate Change Agriculture: Vulnerability to Climate Change Albedo Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) Annex I Partics Antarctica: Melting Antarctica: Observed Climate Changes Antarctica: Role in Global Climate Anthropogenic Change Arctic Melting: Greenland Ice Cap Arctic Melting: Polar Ice Cap Arctic People: Climate Change Impacts Asia: Climate Change Impacts Atmospheric Chemistry Atmospheric Circulation Atmospheric Pollution Atmospheric Structure Australia: Climate Change Impacts Automobile Emissions Aviation Emissions and Contrails Bali Conference Baseline Emissions Beach and Shoreline Berlin Mandate Biodiversity Biofuel Impacts Biogeochemical Cycle Biomass Biosphere Blizzards Bonn Conference (2001) Carbon Credits Carbon Cycle Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Carbon Dioxide Concentrations Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CDE) Carbon Footprint Carbon Sequestration Issues Carbon Sinks Carbon Tax Catastrophism Cement Industry Chaos Theory and Meteorological Predictions China: Climate and Energy Policies China: Total Carbon Dioxide Emissions Chlorofluorocarbons and Related Compounds Clean Development Mechanism Climate Change Climate Change Science Program Climate Change Skeptics Climate Emgineering Climate Lag Clouds and Reflectance Coal Coastal Populations Coastlines, Changing Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs Continental Drift Coral Reefs and Corals Cosmic Rays Cow Power Cryosphere Cultural Impacts: Venice in Peril, a Case Study Dams Delhi Declaration Desert and Desertification Drought Dust Storms Earthquakes Economic of Climate Change Economics in Transition El Nino and La Nina Electromagnetic Spectrum Emissions Trading Endangered Species Energy Contributions Energy Efficiency Energy Industry Activism Enhanced Greenhouse Effect Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Environmental Policy Environmental Pollution Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Protests Erosion Ethanol Europe: Climate Change Impacts Europe: Climate Policy Extinction Extra-terrestrial Climate Change Extreme Weather Feedback Factors Fisheries Floods Fog Forests and Deforestation Gaia General Circulation Model (GCM) Geologic Time Scale Geothermal Energy GIS and Climate Change Mapping Glaciation Glacier Glacier Retreat Global Change Research Program Global Dimming Global Warming Great Barrier Reef Great Conveyor Belt Great Lakes Green Movement Greenhouse Ameliorators Greenhouse Effect Greenhouse Gases Greenland: Global Implications of Accelerated Melting Ground Data and Satellite Data Discrepancy Gulf of Mexico Gulf Stream Volume 2 Halocarbons Halogen Halogenated Fluorocarbons Heat Waves Heinrich Events Historic Preservation (World Heritage Sites) Hockey Stick Controversy Human Evolution Hurricanes Hydrocarbons Hydrofluorocarbons Hydrogen Economy Hydrologic Cycle Hydrothermal Processes Ice Ages Ice Core Research Icebergs Industry (Private Action and Initiatives) Infectious Discease and Climate Change Insolation Insurance Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) IPCC Climate Change 2007 Report IPCC Climate Change 2007 Report: Criticism IPCC Climate Change 2007 Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability IPCC Climate Change 2007 Report: Mitigation of Climate Change IPCC Climate Change 2007 Report: Physical Science Basis Iron Fertilization Jet Stream Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development Keeling Curve Kyoto Protocol Lake Effect Snows Lakes Lifestyle Changes Media Influences: An Inconvenient Truth Media Influences: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Media Influence: False Balance Media Influence: Ice Age Predictions Media Influence: Live Earth Media Influence: The End of Nature Medieval Warm Epoch Melting Meteorology Methane Milankovitch Cycles Millennial Climate Oscillations Mitigation Strategies Montreal Protocol National Security Natural Gas Nitrous Oxide (N2O) North America: Climate Change Impacts Nuclear Power Nuclear Winter Ocean Circulation and Currents Oceans and Seas Offsetting Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Oscillation Ozone (O3) Ozone Depletion Paleoclimatology Peak Oil Per fluorinated Carbons (PFCs) Permafrost Petroleum Petroleum: Economic Uses and Dependency Phenology Polar Bears Polar Ice Polar Regions: Climate Change Impacts Polar Wander Public Opinion Rainfall Red Tide Refugees and Displacement Renewability Renewable Energy Respiratory Disease Rivers Saltwater Encroachment Satellite Measurements Sea Level Rise Sea Temperatures and Storm Intensity Seasonal Winds Seawalls and Beach Erosion Sequestration Simulations Sink Small Islands: Climate Change Impacts Snowball Earth Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) Solar Energy Solar Illumination Solar Radiation Soot South America: Climate Change Impacts Stern Review Sulfate Aerosol Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) Sustainability Sustainable Energy Policy Network Temperature and Temperature Scales Temperature Record Terra Satellite and Earth Observing System (EOS) Terraforming Tides Tornadoes Tourism and Recreation Trace Gas Tropical Cyclone Tundra Uniformitarianism United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) United States: Climate Policy United States: State and Local Greenhouse Politics Urban Heat Islands Volcanism Waste Disposal Wastewater Treatment Water Shortages Water Vapour Wetlands Wildfires Wing Power World Meteorological Organization (WMO) World Meteorological Organization 9WHO)