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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.
Chapter 4: Fugitive Emissions . 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories 4.5 . Equations Equation 4.1.0 (New) Example equation for estimating fugitive emissions from Coal Exploration..... 4.14 Equation 4.1.1 Estimating emissions from underground coal mines for Tier 1 and Tier 2 without
The author goes on to describe the increasingly sophisticated climate models and the great differences between them and models for meteorological forecasting. Houghton also explores the impacts expected as the climate warms, including the actions and technologies that might limit those changes.
from the greenhouse gases and clouds in the atmosphere, as illustrated in Figure 1. The warmer a surface, the more radiation it emits. Earth’s surface must get warm enough to lose enough heat to balance both sunlight and back-radiation from the atmosphere and clouds. That is the greenhouse effect.
• How do the physical and digital models of the greenhouse effect reflect what is actually happening on Earth? • Explain greenhouse gases and the basics of climate change in a way that an elementary school child could understand. • Why do scientists and policymakers focus on carbon dioxide as a key driver of climate change?
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THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT. We examine in this chapter the role played by atmospheric gases in controlling the temperature of the Earth. The main source of heat to the Earth is solar energy, which is transmitted from the Sun to the Earth by radiation and is converted to heat at the Earth’s surface.
