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The A-Z of Global Warming: Climate Change - Fact or Fiction? by [Simon j Rosser]

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• Fact: The Planet is Warming Up...!

• Latest NASA figures show temperature has increased by 2 Degrees F since 1880...

• 2020 is set to be the warmest year globally, jointly with 2016...

• Sea level is rising by 3.18 mm a year...

• Carbon dioxide levels now stand at 410 PPM (Parts Per Million) and increasing...

• And Arctic sea ice is decreasing by 12% per decade, according to NASA.

Whether you accept that global warming and climate change is caused by humankind or not, The A-Z of Global Warming 2nd Edition will take you on a journey through the world of climate change science and the environment. This Kindle book has been updated since its original publication, complete with hyperlinks that take the reader to news articles and source material!

Confused about climate change and reports in the media? Need clarification of the science? Concerned about the adverse weather conditions that seem to be affecting the Earth at an increasing frequency? This book is for you. A complete A-Z guide on global warming, climate change science and related environmental science, set out in unique A-Z format.

From the Amazon, Biofuels, Carbon Dioxide, Deforestation through to the Weather, Extinction and What You Can Do To Help? Each chapter deals with a specific aspect of global warming and the facts and science involved. The book looks at the effects of climate change and at the primary cause of global warming.

Supplemented with chapter summary bullet points and with all facts obtained from multiple sources, included NASA, NSIDC, IPCC, WWF, The Stern Review this guide is written for the lay person and seasoned climate change crusader alike...

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"Global Warming Clarified"

"Cuts To The Chase"

"Global Warming In A Nutshell"

"Global Warming Encyclopedia"

"Creative, Inspirational, Educational"

"Outstanding, Simplistic Explanation Of Global Warming"

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It's not possible now to get through the day without hearing something about global warming or climate change on the news, or reading about the subject in the papers.

Indeed to most people, including myself before writing this book, the issues seemed so complex, confusing and contradictory, that it was hard to know exactly what was really going on. Whether the world really is warming up, whether the situation was being exaggerated or whether the causes of global warming, if occurring were manmade or not?

It is now clear that something is indeed going on with Earth's climate. Polar ice caps appear to be melting, at least the pictures on the news seem to show this to be the case. There is constant mention of rising co2 levels, and there always appears to be high powered meetings going on between nations to discuss the climate, One only recently took place in Bali in December where climate change and global warming were hotly (excuse the pun) discussed.

Following a viewing in the cinema in November 2006 of Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, I felt inspired to research, read about and find out as much as I could on the subject of climate change and global warming. I bought numerous books, scanned the internet and trawled through enormous amounts of information written on the subject from multiple sources to gain as comprehensive understanding as I could on the issues of global warming. Information for this book came from organisations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), The National Oceanic Atmospheric administration (NOAA), The Stern Review on The Economics of Climate Change, The World Wildlife Fund, Mongabay to name a few. After a while I conceived the idea to create an A-Z guide on the subject, to make it quick and easy for anyone who wanted a good knowledge of global warming to be able to read a book and get straight to the answers of this very complex topic.

All the related issues of global warming and climate change have been packed into an A-Z format, with each chapter dealing with a specific point on the subject. Each chapter is illustrated with either hand drawn explanatory pictures and/or NASA, NOAA photographs and graphs.

I have used the term global warming, as in my view it most accurately describes what is in fact happening to planet Earth on a global scale. However, as a result of global warming, there will of course be climatic change in different parts of the world, whether it be higher temperatures, rainfall or drought or hurricanes, even perhaps localised cooling, caused by global warming itself.

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

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"helps to make a complex body of factual material accessible... useful to the climate change novice and seasoned eco-crusader alike."
--This text refers to the paperback edition.

From the Publisher

The A-Z of Global Warming will be published slightly later than previously advertised. There will be a slight delay of 6 weeks or so from original publication date... towards mid September 2008. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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"The chapters I have seen amount to a useful simplification in an unusual format of some very complex issues."
-- Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO

"This is an excellent, witty and imaginative book that looks at climate change through the lens of simplicity without the jargon and scientific detail which so often dogs this subject. It has a humour and tongue in cheek approach which highlights both the importance of the subject, but the need to engage the reader and not fill him or her with a hopeless sense of guilt. Enjoy¡¨ -- Tim Smit CBE Chief Executive of the Eden Project, Cornwall UK.

"helps to make a complex body of factual material accessible... useful to the climate change novice and seasoned eco-crusader alike."
-- Law Society Gazette, 23rd October 2008 --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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AMAZON

We start our A-Z journey on global warming with The Amazon Rainforest, which has an incredibly important role to play in maintaining a balance in the Earth's climate in ways that are only just being understood. The Amazon is inextricably linked to the issue of global warming and therefore a very good place to start this A-Z journey on what may be the biggest threat to our existence on this planet.

Amazon facts

The Amazon river basin contains the largest rainforest on Earth and covers approximately 40% of the South American continent. The Amazon Rainforest is located within eight countries, Brazil contains 60% of the forest, with Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana containing the rest.

The Amazon forest is a natural reservoir of genetic diversity, containing the largest and most species rich tract of tropical rainforest that exists. The Amazon has an amazing thirty percent of the Earth's species. One square kilometre of Amazon can contain about 90,000 tons of living plants! It's also amazing to consider that one in five of all the birds in the world make the rainforest their home.

The Amazon basin is drained by the Amazon river, the worlds second longest after the Nile and the river is essentially the lifeline of the forest. The river is the most voluminous on Earth and its daily freshwater discharge into the Atlantic is enough to supply New York City's freshwater needs for nine years! New measurements recently taken by scientists however, suggest that the Amazon may actually be the longest river in the world, no doubt this will be confirmed if true, at some point in the future!

A few thousand years ago tropical rainforests covered as much as 12% of the Earth's land surface, but today the figure is less than 5%. The largest stretch of rainforest can be found in the Amazon river basin, over half of which lies in Brazil.

Why is the Amazon so important in the context of global warming?

The rainforest acts as a major store of Carbon and produces enormous amounts of oxygen. The Amazon has been referred to as The lungs of the Earth, because of it's affect on the climate. The way this is achieved is of course through photosynthesis, the process by which green plants/trees use the energy from sunlight to produce food by taking carbon dioxide (Co2) from the air and water and converting them to carbon. The by-product of this is oxygen.

The Amazon therefore helps recycle carbon dioxide by turning it into oxygen, and its estimated that the Amazon produces about 20% of this essential gas for Earth's atmosphere.

Trees, plants and CO2

Levels of co2 in the atmosphere have been measured since 1958 from a monitoring station located on Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii and they show sharp annual increases and-to read more, but the book!

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

"This is an excellent, witty and imaginative book that looks at climate change through the lens of simplicity without the jargon and scientific detail which so often dogs this subject. It has a humour and tongue-in cheek
approach which highlights both the importance of the subject,but the need to engage the reader and not fill him or her with a hopeless sense of guilt. Enjoy."
Tim Smit CBE, Chief Executive of the Eden Project, Cornwall UK.

Time is running out for planet Earth.
Atmospheric CO2 has increased by
thirty-seven per cent since 1750
- How does this affect Earth's
climate?
- Is mankind to blame?

- What is the `greenhouse effect'?
Earth's oceans are rising
and ice caps melting
- What is the cause?
- What are the
consequences?

- Is the Atlantic
Thermohaline
Circulation
shutting down?

Earth's temperature is
increasing
- How do we know?
- What's the cause?
- Is the sun to blame?

Renewable energy
- What is it?
- Are biofuels really
environmentally friendly?

Global warming and the weather
- Are hurricanes becoming
more intense?
- What about floods,droughts
and heatwaves?

- What was Earth's
historical climate like?

Uncertain about global
warming?
- What are the sceptics saying?

What can you do to help?
- Find out what governments
are doing
- Find out what you can do

- Is it all too late?

The A-Z of Global Warming is an assimilation of the latest, most up-to-date scientific knowledge on the subject, based on information sourced from NASA, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, the World Wildlife Fund, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, Mongabay, as well as other relevant organisations.Find out all the answers to the above and much more inside.

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0037KM1HA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Schmall World Publishing; 2nd edition (1 Jan. 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 822 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 263 pages

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Simon was born in Cardiff, South Wales, UK, in 1968.

When he's not busy with his day job as a lawyer, he is the author of Action-Adventure-thriller novels, predominantly the Robert Spire Action Thrillers, which all have an ecological, historical, science-fiction mystery cataclysmic theme. Think James Bond mixed with Indiana Jones and a bit of environmental / historical facts thrown in for good measure...

Favorite authors include - Ed McBain, James Patterson, Lee Child, Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston, Patrick Lee, Michael Grumley, A G Riddle and Clive Cussler.

Favorite movies - Good The Bad and The Ugly, Jaws, Deliverance, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, It's A Wonderful Life, Scarface, Play Misty For Me, Electra-Glide In Blue, The Abyss, Deliverance, Contact, Alien, Predator, Interstellar, The Thing and many others.

Previous Books - THE A-Z OF GLOBAL WARMING - updated 2012 edition, and the Robert Spire Eco-terrorism action-thrillers TIPPING POINT, IMPACT POINT, MELT ZONE, CATACLYSM OF THE ANCIENTS, CRYPTO, and the GALILEO PROJECT SciFi UFO Conspiracy thrillers 1-3. The author is now working oon Spire 9 - THE VANISHED.

The author has also written Sci-fi thrillers, VAPORIZED I AND II and SALIENT, together with stand alone espionage adventure thriller, RED MIST.

All books available in Audiobook and Kindle/ebook format.

If you enjoyed reading any of my books, and have the time, please stop by and leave a Amazon review. It will be much appreciated, thanks. Also please sign up to my newsletter on my website to your FREE copy of Tipping Point and news on other deals and promotions.

For more information, visit the author's website at http://www.sirosserauthor.com

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Philip Stevenson

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Clear facts documenting the changes to our planet, well worth a read. Very informative.

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I have read this book for my science project and anything I needed I found in this book. Excellent source of information. I would buy more science book from this author !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Andrew Whitney

Primer for University and A- Levels

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 15 September 2014

A good read for background to Global Warming and Climate Change for Environmental Science and Geography Students (Universtity and A-Level)
Also good if your studying Open University Global Warming Uint.
Lots of facts and information for all to read and dont go off topic. Easy to read A to Z format. Very good for short or long reads. Easy to digest with summarys at the end of each chapters. Up to date to end of 2012.

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Emappeal

Creative, Inspirational, Educational

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 26 September 2008

Although the terminally inclement weather in Britain sometimes makes me wonder if and when global warming will affect this part of the world, Mr. Rosser's passionate and "ordinary person" approach to the subject is refreshing. He explains concepts of global warming in plain terms and the key points at the end of each chapter are very helpful.
Evidently, the author is also the artist. The drawings throughout the book are very appealing and nearly tell the story all on their own.

The book is just the right length and has nice feel to it. With so many books currently available on this subject, this one stands out as a favorite.

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isocorp

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 30 May 2012

Nice A-Z format, but the writer has taken the "warmist / alarmist" one-sided view of the story. Using quotes from politically motivated NGOs such as the WWF and other such "green/eco" groups who survive on funds by perpetuating the myth does not help his case. The IPCC is mentioned on many occasions, despite the hundreds of errors and retractions made by this body making it untrustworthy as a source of any solid empirical facts. Most output from the IPCC is based on finger in the wind computer modelling, and cherry-picked data where possible (Yamal tree data, for example).
If one simply knows that a rise in temperature PRECEDES a rise in CO2 - something glossed over by the author as "open to interpretation" then 99% of the premise of this book is destroyed. And as for the typical alarmist "there's more CO2 now than in the last 650,000 million years", well in fact, the ice cores show measurements of over 400ppm as recently as about 1700AD. and 420ppm about 200AD. Ice cores show similar carbon dioxide levels intermittently over the last 10,000 years.
One could go through this book an discredit each point, but that should be down the to educated reader. It has been noted as recently as this week that the more scientifically educated one is, the more likely that person will be sceptical / not-concerned about man-made climate change / global warming / climate disruption / whatever it is today - see "The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks".
So, yes, read this book, but do not let this be the end of your education. You NEED to balance your knowledge with books that take their data from non-biased politically-motivated sources.

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N. R. A. Gregory

Global warming encyclopedia

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 21 September 2008

A well written and researched book on the subject, dealing with the known scientific facts on global warming, sourced by the author from many different reference points including NASA, NOAA, The World Wildlife Fund, and Sterns Review on the Economics of Climate Change to name a few. The A-Z format, makes this a very unusual and easy read in this particular subject matter, and the book comes with some intriguing and amusing illustrations which add a little light heartedness to this worrying subject. I was a little sceptical about the problem to be honest, but after reading this book, the scientific facts would appear clear... we dont' have much time left to take action to avert serious problems if the causes of global warming are not addressed soon! An essential read on the topic!

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Jason Allen Andrew Russell

Outstanding Simplistic Explanation of Global Warming

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 28 September 2008

"A very interesting book, dealing with all aspects of climate change and global warming, and especially good for someone who knew very little about the subject, like myself ! The book is basically a factual account on the topic of global warming, with each chapter taking you through an alphabetic journey through the subject matter. Well written and illustrated throughout. A very handy and concise guide.... if not a little un-nerving ! "

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