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Title Climate change : an encyclopedia of science and history / Brian C. Black, general editor ; David M. Hassenzahl, Jennie C. Stephens, Gary Weisel, and Nancy Gift, associate editors.

Publication Info. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (4 volumes (xx, 1774 pages)) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents v. 1. A-D. Introduction -- Abrupt Climate Change -- Aerosols: Research and Science -- Aerosols and Climate Change -- Afforestation -- Agriculture and Adaptation in China -- Agriculture and Adaptation in Developing Countries -- Agriculture and Adaptation in the United States -- Algae Cultivation: Algaculture -- Alternative Transportation -- American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment -- Animal Habits and Extinctions: Recent Changes -- An Inconvenient Truth Brings Climate Change to the Mainstream -- Anthropocene -- Anthropocene: Scientific Discourse -- Arctic Amplification -- Arrhenius, Svante August (1859-1927) -- Art and Climate Change References -- Atmospheric Circulation: Historical Overview -- Automobile History -- Automobiles and Environmental Impacts -- Balance of Nature -- Biomass Carbon -- Biomass Energy and Biofuels -- Bolin, Bert Rickard Johannes (1925-2007) -- Broad Arrow Policy -- Broecker, Wallace Smith (1931- ) -- Brundtland, Gro Harlem (1939- ) -- Cap and Trade Economics -- Capture, Rule of -- Carbon Capture and Storage -- Carbon Dioxide -- Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere and Oceans -- Carbon Sequestration -- Carter, Jimmy, and the 1970s Oil Crisis and Alternative Energy -- Certified Emission Reductions Projects: Financing -- Children's Health and Climate Change -- China's National Climate Policy -- Chlorofluorocarbons -- Christian Response to Climate Change -- Chu, Steven (1948- ) -- Clean Coal -- Climate Change and Biodiversity Policies -- Climate Change Communication -- Climate Change Skeptics and Public Policy -- Climate Education Considerations -- Climate Education Trends in U.S. Higher Education -- Climate Literacy -- Climate Policy in the Obama Administration -- Climate Refugees -- Climatic Determinism -- Climatic Research Unit -- Climatic Research Unit Email Controversy -- Climatology as a Profession -- Clusters for Sustainability and Green Energy -- Coal Power -- Coastal Planning Policies in Developed Countries -- Coastal Planning Policies in Developing Countries -- Computer Simulations of Climate Change -- Consumer Culture: Chemicals and Plastics -- Continental Drift -- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora -- Coral Bleaching -- Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards -- Crichton, Michael (1942-2008) -- Dansgaard, Willi (1922-2011) -- Deforestation -- Dendrochronology: Studying Tree Rings -- Desertification.
v. 2. E-G. Early-Geothermal -- Early Industrialization -- Earth First! and Ecoradicalism -- Eco-Art: Loss of Habitat, Species Migration, and Extinction -- Eco-Art and Ocean Acidification -- El Niño-Southern Oscillation -- Emergence of Ecology -- Emiliani, Cesare (1922-1995) -- Emissions Trading Scheme -- Energy Conservation and Efficiency -- Energy Sources and Shortages -- Energy Technology Innovation -- Enhanced Geothermal Energy -- Enron and Energy Trading -- Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine -- Environmentalism of the 1970s -- Environmental Justice and Climate Change -- Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Implications for Oil Producing Countries -- Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Influence on Native Americans -- Environmental Justice and Climate Change in China -- Environmental Justice and Climate Change in India -- Environmental Justice and Climate Change in the United States -- Environmental Movement: 1980-2000 -- Environmental Thought in the 19th Century -- European Union Climate Policy -- Extinctions: Early Earth History -- Extreme Weather -- Feedback Mechanisms -- Food and Nutrition Security -- Forest Conservation, U.S. -- Fossil Fuels: Current and Projected -- Fossil Fuel Use and Industrialization -- Fracking -- FutureGen -- Gaia Hypothesis -- Gender and Climate Science -- Geochemical Carbon Management -- Geoengineering -- Geoengineering and Public Policy -- Geography and Climate Change -- Geothermal Energy -- Glaciers and Glacial Extent -- Global Atmospheric Research Program -- Global Cooling in the 1970s -- Global Warming Literature -- Gore, Albert Arnold, Jr. (1948- ) -- Government Concerns for Human Health -- Green Culture and American Environmentalism -- Greenhouse Effect -- Green Party in the United States -- Green Revolution -- Greenwashing.
v. 3. H-S. Hadley Centre -- Hansen, James E. (1941- ) -- Hawken, Paul (1946- ) -- Health Impacts of Climate Change -- Holdren, John P. (1944- ) -- Human History and Climate Change -- Hydropower -- Individual Energy Choices -- Informal Climate Education -- Inhofe, James (1934- ) -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports -- International Geophysical Year -- International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -- Jackson, Lisa (1962- ) -- Jones, Anthony Kapel "Van" (1968- ) -- Keeling, Charles David (1928-2005) -- Kyoto Protocol -- Laki Volcanic Eruption of 1783 -- Landscape Art in the 19th Century -- Lappé, Anna (1973- ) -- Lappé, Frances Moore (1944- ) -- Lead -- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design -- Little Ice Age -- Lomborg, Bjørn (1965- ) -- Love Canal Homeowners Association -- Lovelock, James (1919- ) -- Maathai, Wangari (1940- ) -- Marcellus Shale -- Marsh, George Perkins (1801-1882) -- McKibben, Bill (1960- ) -- Medieval Warm Period -- Meteorology in the 19th Century -- Methane -- Microhydropower -- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer -- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies -- National Center for Atmospheric Research -- National Climatic Data Center -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- National Weather Service -- Nitrogen Cycle -- Nitrous Oxide -- North American Free Trade Agreement -- Nuclear Power Policy -- Nuclear Power Technology -- Nuclear Winter -- Ocean Acidification -- Ocean Circulation -- Oceanic Carbon -- Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico -- Oil Spills and the Marine Environment -- Oil Use -- Ostrum, Elinor Awan (1933- ) -- Pachauri, Rajendra (1940- ) -- Paleoclimatology -- Passive House Designed for Conservation -- Passive Solar Buildings -- Peak Oil -- Photovoltaic Technology -- Pickens Plan for Wind Energy -- Precautionary Principle -- Presidential Election of 2000 -- Public Attitudes toward Climate Change around the World -- Public Attitudes toward Climate Change in the United States -- Recycling in the United States -- Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation -- Renewable Energy -- Risk Management Perspective -- Robinson, Kim Stanley (1952- ) -- Schneider, Stephen H. (1945-2010) -- Science Assessment for Policy Decisions -- Sediment Cores -- Shackleton, Nicholas John (1937-2006) -- Shiva, Vandana (1952- ) -- Singer, Peter (1946- ) -- Skeptics, Naysayers, Anomalies, and Controversies -- Smart Grids -- Social-Ecological Resilience and Climate Change -- Social Movements Related to Climate Change -- Social Policy Adaptation, Child Poverty, and Global Warming -- Solar Energy -- Solar Variability -- Sport-Utility Vehicles -- Sprawl and New Urbanism.
v. 4. T-W. Tambora Eruption and the Global Climate Emergency of 1815-1818 -- Temperature Record -- 350.org -- Tidal Energy -- Tipping Point -- Transportation -- Uncertainty and Controversy: Risks of Climate Change -- Union of Concerned Scientists -- Urban Planning and Climate Policy -- Visual Arts Exhibitions Focused on Climate Change -- Vulnerability -- Water Resources and Adaptation in the United States -- Waxman-Markey Climate Bill: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 -- Weather Control and Artificial Climates -- Wildlife Conservation -- Wind Power -- Wind Power Debate along Cape Cod -- Women and Climate Change -- Woodwell, George M. (1930- ) -- World Climate Research Programme -- World Mayors' Organizations -- Appendix 1: Copenhagen Accord -- Appendix 2: The Marrakesh Accords -- Appendix 3: Kyoto Protocol -- Appendix 4: Cancun Agreements -- Appendix 5: President Barack Obama's 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference Speech -- Appendix 6: Richard Muller's Testimony to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives -- Appendix 7: James Hansen Speech, "Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near" -- Appendix 8: Cancun Adaptation Framework, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Appendix 9: 2010 Climate Action Report, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Appendix 10: Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Adaptation in Developing Countries -- Appendix 11: State of Connecticut et al. v. American Electric Power Company, Inc. et al. -- Appendix 12: Massachusetts et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al. -- Appendix 13: IPCC First Assessment Report -- Appendix 14: IPCC Second Assessment Report -- Appendix 15: IPCC Third Assessment Report -- Appendix 16: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report -- General Bibliography -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.
Summary This book provides a holistic consideration of climate change that goes beyond pure science, fleshing out the discussion by considering cultural, historical, and policy-driven aspects of this important issue.
Note Print version record.
Subject Climatic changes -- Research -- Encyclopedias.
Climatic changes -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Climatic changes. (OCoLC)fst00864229
Climatic changes -- Research. (OCoLC)fst00864259
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Reference works. (OCoLC)fst01919963
Encyclopedias. (OCoLC)fst01423798
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Encyclopedias.
Reference works.
Added Author Black, Brian, 1966- editor.
Hassenzahl, David M., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Climate change. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2013] 9781598847611 (DLC) 2012034673 (OCoLC)768800369
ISBN 9781598847628 (electronic bk.)
1598847627 (electronic bk.)
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