Indicators of Climate Change

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-32838-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

Indicators of Climate Change focuses on the root causes of global warming and climate change. The book will include detailed discussions on the indicators of climate change, highlighting the rapidity of the changes. The indicators discussed in this book will include the rise in the average atmospheric temperature, ocean heat, rising sea levels, melting ice sheets and glaciers, changes in plant adaption, changes in insect adaption, and weather pattern changes. The book highlights fossil fuels, the root cause of climate change, and the urgency of the problem.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Letcher, Trevor

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Changing Climate, a catastrophe in the making and its possible causes
2. Global temperature rise and Climate Change
3. Ocean Heat
4. Rising Sea levels and Climate Change
5. Arctic Sea Ice and Climate Change
6. Antarctic Sea Ice and Climate Change
7. Land Ice Sheets and Climate Change
8. Glaciers and Climate Change
9. Ocean Current Changes and Climate Change
10. Ocean Acidification and Climate Change
11. Permafrost changes and Climate Change
12. The Jet Stream and Climate Change
13. Tropical Storms and Climate Change
14. Floods and Climate Change
15. Wildfires and Climate Change
16. Droughts and Climate Change
17. Coral Reefs and Climate Change
18. Bird Migration and Climate Change
19. Insect behaviour changes and Climate Change
20. Intertidal Changes and Climate Changes
21. Plant Pathology and Climate Change
22. Biological Diversity and Climate Change
23. Invasive Plants and Climate Change

Über Autor(innen)

Letcher, Trevor
Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.