Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth, Letcher 9780444635242 New,#

Climate ChangeObserved Impacts on Planet Earth\nAuthor(s): Trevor Letcher\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, United Kingdom\nImprint: Elsevier Science Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780444635242, 978-0444635242\nSynopsis\nEarth's climate is always changing. As the debate over the Earth's climate has grown, the term \""climate change\"" has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those that are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior. Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth, Second Edition, serves as a broad, accessible guide to the science behind this often political and heated debate by providing scientific detail and evidence in language that is clear to both the climatologist and the non-specialist. The book contains 35 chapters on all scientific aspects of climate change, written by the world's authority of each particular subject. It collects the latest information on all of these topics in one volume. In th.