Astronomy and the Climate Crisis. 1st ed. 2012

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by Antony Cooke

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New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012

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• Cooke, Antony.
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シリーズ名:

Astronomers' Universe ;

ISBN:

9781461446088 [1461446082]    

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Preface -- Chapter 1: The Astronomical Connection -- Chapter 2: The Physics of a Crisis -- Chapter 3: Climate and Weather -- Chapter 4: The Physics of a Crisis -- Chapter 5: Short-Term Climate Variation -- Chapter 6: Gravitational Interactions of the Solar System -- Chapter 7: Understanding the Larger Solar Cycles -- Chapter 8: Climate Models -- Chapter 9: Interpretations of the Data -- Chapter 10: Global Warming on Other Worlds -- Chapter 11: Ice Ages and Long-Term Cycles -- Chapter 12: Cosmic Crisis -- Index.
Climate change is one of the most hotly debated issues of today. Increasing global temperatures will impact all of us. There are more questions than answers, however, and sweeping statements on the subject made by public figures, often with little scientific understanding, only further confuses public opinion. Astronomical factors, apart from passing references to the Sun, are given short shrift in relation to climate change. However, they might be amongst the major determinants of it.  A presentation of those that have been studied that some scientists suspect might be involved are featured in this book. Included is an in-depth look at the physics of climate itself, the potential effects of the Sun, solar storms, sunspots, solar variability, the magnetosphere, solar cycles, influences of nearby planets, orbital factors, cosmic rays, possible galactic influences, monitoring from space, even climate change elsewhere in the solar system, and much more. The greatest challenge climate change scientists face is de

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