{"product_id":"global-warming-isbn-9780470943410","title":"Global Warming","description":"Based on the author's highly successful undergraduate course taught at the University of Chicago, Global Warming presents the processes of climate change and climate stability. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, this Second Edition not only summarizes scientific evidence, but also presents economic and political issues related to global warming. \u003cp\u003eOnline Models v\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Humankind and Climate 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Greenhouse Effect 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Blackbody Radiation 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Layer Model 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Greenhouse Gases 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 What Holds the Atmosphere Up? 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Weather and Climate 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Feedbacks 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Carbon Cycle 87\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Carbon on Earth 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Fossil Fuels and Energy 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Perturbed Carbon Cycle 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The Forecast 133\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Smoking Gun 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Potential Climate Impacts 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Decisions, Decisions 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 197\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Archer\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eGlobal Warming: Understanding the Forecast\u003c\/em\u003e, published by John Wiley and Sons and a book for popular audiences called \u003cem\u003eThe Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 years of the Earth's Climate\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Princeton University Press and winner of the 2009 Walter P. Kistler Award, \u003cem\u003eThe Foundation for the Future\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eSince 1993, Archer has been a professor in the department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and has worked on a wide range of topics pertaining to the global carbon cycle and its relation to the global climate, with a special focus on ocean sedimentary processes such as CaCO3 dissolution and methane hydrate formation and their impact on the evolution of atmospheric CO2.\u003cbr\u003eHe currently teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry and global geochemical cycles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989298528485,"sku":"NP9780470943410","price":77.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470943410.jpg?v=1761783570","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/global-warming-isbn-9780470943410","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}