The Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science and Technology: I-z: 2 - Hardcover

Comprehensive in scope and accessible to all reader levels, The Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science and Technology covers a vast range of topics, concepts, issues, processes, and scientists sifted and melded from the many scientific and technological fields that converge on the subject of global warming, including atmospheric chemistry, paleoclimatology, biogeography, oceanography, geophysics, glaciology, and soil science. The encyclopedia's 300 up-to-the-minute entries sweep from "Antarctic Oscillation" to "Thermohaline Circulation"; from "Hadley Cells" to "Hydrogen Fuel Cells"; from "Methane 'Burp' Hypothesis" to "Ocean Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide"; from "Contrails" to "Contrarians"; from "Christianity and Global Warming" to "Cuckoo, Decline in Great Britain"; from "Shoreline Retreat: Beaches, United States of America" to "Skiing Industry and Icemelt"; from "War, Carbon Footprint of" to "Thunderstorms and Tornadoes, Frequency and Severity of"; from "Wave Power and Shipping" to "Wine Grapes and Warming."