This book contains reflections about climate change - an intrinsic reality of our planet's history over the past 4.6 billion years – including both natural and anthropogenic variations. More recently, the phrase "climate change" has become a euphemism for "carbon dioxide emissions". While focusing on CO2 emissions is crucial for understanding climate change, solely using this term in scientific discussions may lead to overlooking other complex factors contributing, among other things, to extreme weather events, potentially affecting the quality of evidence analysis. The shift towards using "climate change" interchangeably with "carbon dioxide emissions" within scientific circles, while highlighting a key driver, necessitates ensuring comprehensive discussions that encompass the diverse evidence related to all climate sub-systems. Therefore, using the phrase like a changing climate opens a bigger umbrella that facilitates covering multiple and complex climate manifestations. The book will be useful to students, researchers and policy makers working and studying in the vast and often contentious landscape of climate change debates.
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ISBN
9781036400330
Publisert
2024-05-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Høyde
212 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
266

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Constantin Cranganu is Professor of Geophysics and Hydrogeology at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, USA. He earned an MS in geophysics from the University of Bucharest, Romania, and a PhD in geology from the University of Oklahoma, USA. With a wealth of expertise, Professor Cranganu has been a prolific author, co-author, and editor, contributing to numerous books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles published in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, and Romania. Since 2004, he has dedicated his efforts to lecturing, researching, and producing works addressing various aspects of climate change. Notably, in 2021, he published Climate Change, Torn between Myth and Fact. Professor Cranganu has been honored with two Visiting Scientist Fulbright Fellowships, one in 1993 and another in 2018.