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These five chapters provide end-to-end assessments of fundamental Earth system processes and components: the carbon budget and biogeochemical cycles (Chapter 5), short-lived climate forcers and their links to air quality (Chapter 6), the Earth’s energy budget and climate sensitivity (Chapter 7), the water cycle (Chapter 8), and the ocean ...
For anyone who needs clear, detailed, well-evidenced information about global warming, this is an outstandingly useful book. ‘. . . an excellent basis for students and non-scientists to understand climate change with its manifold impacts and consequences for humankind and for our common planet.
The Fifth Report of the IPCC WGI (AR5) described here follows on from the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) released in 2007. The previous three WGI reports came in 2001, 1995 and 1990. Chapter 1 provides a broad overview of the AR5 report with many of the key highlights being expanded upon in subsequent chapters.
Pathways to 1.5°C (see Chapter 1, Cross-Chapter Box 1 in Chapter 1, Glossary) include ambitious reductions in emissions and strategies for adaptation that are transformational, as well as complex interactions with sustainable development, poverty eradication and reducing inequalities.
There are two main ways to stop the amount of greenhouse gases from increasing: we can stop adding them to the air, and we can increase the Earth’s ability to pull them out of the air. Doing both will help reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Preface 1. Global warming and climate change 2. The Greenhouse effect 3. The Greenhouse gases 4. Climates of the past 5. Modelling the climate 6. Climate change for the twenty-first century and beyond 7. The impacts of climate change 8. Why should we be concerned? 9. Weighing the uncertainty 10. A strategy for action to avoid dangerous climate ...
Options for dealing with climate change fall into three broad categories: curtailing the emissions of greenhouse gases and/or taking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere (mitigation), learning to live with the consequences (adaptation), and engineering our way around the problems that greenhouse gases produce (geoengineering).
