Dynamic analysis of weather and climate: atmospheric circulation, perturbations, climatic evolution

In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global Warming: Myth or Reality? Marcel Leroux seeks to separate fact from fiction in this critical debate from a climatological perspective. Beginning with a review of the dire hypotheses for climate trends, the author describes the history of the 1998 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and many subsequent conferences. He discusses themain conclusions of the three IPCC reports and the predicted impact on globaltemperatures, rainfall, weather and climate, while highlighting the mounting confusion and sensationalism of reports in the media. After taking a hard lookat the reality of the greenhouse effect, the ‘evidence’ from climate models, and the models’ limitations, Leroux postulates alternate causes of climate change and analyzes the trends for global temperatures, rainfall patterns, and sea level. He poses the ‘heretical’ question if warming may be considered a benefit in some regions. Finally Leroux suggests a number of priorities for climatologists to better understand processes of climate change, to integrate them into climate models, and to predict accurately future changes in climate. This timely and controversial book lays out the scientific case of the sizable skeptical scientific community who challenge the accepted wisdom. Anybody who speaks about climate change needs to know the basis for understanding the weather and climate and have a critical knowledge on events and replace media sensasionalism in context Offers a comprehensive explanation of observed facts that leads to meaningful and verifiable perspective concerning the future evolution of the climate

• ISBN: 978-3-642-04679-7
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 23/12/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés