Is the temperature rising? : the uncertain science of global warming
S. George Philander (Author)
In explaining why there is no consensus on whether global warming is real or a myth based on misleading data, Philander "guides the nonscientific reader through new ideas about the remarkable and intricate factors that determine the world's climate."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1998
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1998
xv, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780691057750, 9780691050348, 0691057753, 0691050341
37567369
| Preface | Between the Idea and the Reality | |
| 2 | Is Our Planet Fragile or Robust? | |
| 3 | Light and Air | |
| 4 | Why the Peak of a Mountain Is Cold | |
| 5 | Capricious Clouds | |
| 6 | The Climate Tapestry | |
| 7 | Weather, the Music of Our Sphere | |
| 8 | The Ocean in Motion | |
| 9 | El Nino, La Nina, and the Southern Oscillation | |
| 10 | The Paradox of the Faint Sun but Warm Earth | |
| 11 | Why Summer Is Warmer than Winter: The Cycles of Seasons and of Ice Ages | |
| 12 | The Ozone Hole, a Cautionary Tale | |
| 13 | Global Warming, Risky Business | |
| App. A1.1 | Exponential Growth and Decay | |
| App. A1.2 | Establishing a Chronology | |
| App. A2.1 | Gaia | |
| App. A2.2 | Chaos | |
| App. A3.1 | Earthshine | |
| App. A3.2 | The Scattering of Light | |
| App. A3.3 | Blackbody Radiation | |
| App. A3.4 | Effective Temperatures of the Planets | |
| App. A3.5 | The Greenhouse Effect | |
| App. A4.1 | The Scale Height of the Atmosphere | |
| App. A4.2 | The Adiabatic Lapse Rate | |
| App. A5.1 | Measuring Moisture in the Atmosphere | |
| App. A5.2 | Earth's Energy Budget | |
| App. A5.3 | How Many of Your Molecules Have Been to the Moon? | |
| App. A6.1 | Conservation of Angular Momentum | |
| App. A6.2 | The Coriolis Force | |
| App. A6.3 | Shape of Earth | |
| App. A6.4 | Gradient Winds | |
| App. A7.1 | Predicting the Weather | |
| App. A8.1 | The Seasonal Thermocline | |
| App. A8.2 | The Perpetual Salt Fountain | |
| App. 9 | El Nino, La Nina, and the Southern Oscillation | |
| App. A10.1 | Weathering | |
| App. A10.2 | Properties of the Planets | |
| App. 11 | Earth's Sensitivity to Perturbations | |
| App. 12 | The Ozone Layer | |
| App. 13 | Global Warming | |
| Glossary | ||
| References | ||
| Index |