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Carbon dioxide and global change : earth in transition

Title
Carbon dioxide and global change : earth in transition / Sherwood B. Idso.
Author
Idso, Sherwood B.
Publication
  • Tempe, Ariz, U.S.A. (631 E. Laguna Dr., Tempe 85282) : IBR Press, [1989]
  • ©1989

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Description
iii, 292 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Bioclimatology
  • Carbon dioxide > Physiological effect
  • Global warming > Health aspects
  • Climatic changes
  • Climate Change
  • climate change
  • Changement climatique
  • Dioxyde de carbone
  • Climatic changes
  • Bioclimatology
  • Carbon dioxide > Physiological effect
  • Global warming > Health aspects
  • Klimaänderung
  • Kohlendioxid
  • Bioclimatologie
  • Dioxyde de carbone > Effets physiologiques
  • Réchauffement de la Terre
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-235).
Contents
  • DEFINING THE PROBLEM: Earth in transition -- The brightening of the sun -- Death knell of the biosphere? -- Man and carbon dioxide -- Carbon dioxide and global change -- PREDICTING MAN-INDUCED CLIMATIC CHANGE: The role of models -- Modeling earth's temperature response to CO2 -- Hydrological predictions -- Effects of trace gases -- A time of reckoning -- The CO2-ozone Connection -- EVALUATING THE MODELS: General model inadequacies -- Poorly parameterized processes -- Generally omitted processes -- The bottom line -- THE EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO CLIMATE CHANGE: General philosophy -- Mars, Earth and Venus -- Water vapor feedback -- The nature of greenhouse warming -- A Limit to greenhouse warming? -- Micrometeorological evidence for a 4.5 C pseudo-maximum warming -- Climatological evidence for upper limits to surface air temperature -- Micrometeorological evidence for minimal warming of vegetation -- Other evidence for upper limits to surface air temperature -- GCM evidence for an upper limit to greenhouse warming -- Climatological evidence for the stability of earth's climate -- LOOKING FOR THE PREDICTED WARMING: 1988: year of the greenhouse? -- Taking Earth's temperature -- Formula for a fever -- Drought: a recurring phenomenon -- Hurricane Gilbert -- A millennial perspective -- The view from the holocene -- The late quaternary -- A glacial cycle perspective -- The K/T boundary event -- Searching for fingerprints -- Sea level trends -- The CO2-ozone connection -- A final comment on clouds --
  • INTERIM ASSESSMENTS: The first five sections -- Coming attractions -- PLANT RESPONSES TO ATMOSPHERIC CO2 ENRICHMENT: The basic growth response -- CO2 as an antitranspirant -- The upward trend of plant water use efficiency -- A shifting of species -- Competition or cooperation? -- Soil improvements -- Water resource improvements -- CO2 and plant temperature -- EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES: A tax on the benefits of CO2? -- Water stress -- High temperatures -- Low temperatures -- Salinity -- Air pollution -- Acid rain -- Disease -- Insect foraging -- Soil infertility -- Soil toxicity -- UV-B radiation -- The bottom line -- SIGNS OF VEGETATIVE REJUVENATION: Plant productivity -- Tree ring data -- Leaf stomatal densities -- Biogeographical disturbances -- Seasonal CO2 cycle -- Oceanic productivity -- CO2 AND ANIMALS: Are There Direct Effects? -- Indirect Effects -- WITHER THE WORLD?: Forecasting Earth's future -- Future climate -- The empirical greenhouse -- A biology of bounty -- Return to eden? -- The "dark side" of gaian man.
ISBN
  • 0962348910
  • 9780962348914
LCCN
89181510
OCLC
  • ocm20042928
  • 20042928
  • SCSB-1748524
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library