Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis

This book introduces the principles of climate change science, emphasizing the empirical evidence for climate change and a warming world. Covers the scientific method in the context of climate change, reviews claims in denial of climate change and more.

An introduction to the principles of climate change science with an emphasis on the empirical evidence for climate change and a warming world. Additional readings are given at the end of each chapter. A list of "Things to Know" opens each chapter. Chapters are arranged so that the student is first introduced to the scientific method(s), examples of the use of the scientific method from other sciences drawn from the history of science with an emphasis on climate science. Climate science is treated in each chapter based on the premise of global warming. Chapter treatments on the atmosphere. biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and anthroposphere and their inter-relationships are given.

1. Introduction. - Part I - Scientific principles and the scientific method. - 2. scientific principles. - 3. The scientific method and its use. - Part II - Overview of climate change science. - 4. Earth s energy budget. - 5. Climate change trends. - 6. Earth s surface temperature. - 7. Climate change science as earth science. - Part III - Earth s atmosphere. - 8. Introduction to earth s atmosphere. - 9. Carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases, and the carbon cycle. - 10. Earth s albedo, radiative forcing and climate change. - 11. Atmospheric circulation and climate. - Part IV - The world ocean and climate. - 12. The world ocean. - 13. Ocean heat content and rising sea level . - Part V - Earth s cryosphere and recent climate history. - 14. Glaciers and the latest ice age. - 15. Permafrost and methane. - Part VI - Land and its climates. - 16. Continents and mountain ranges. - 17. Climate classifications. - Part VII - Climate models. - 18. Types of models. - Part VIII Climates of the past (paleoclimatology). - 19. Paleoclimates and proxies. - 20. Climates of the recent past. - 21. Pleistocene glaciations. - Part IX - Future climates and mitigation. - 22. Projections of future climates. - Part X - Skeptics and deniers of global warming. - 23. Understanding climate denial. - Part XI - Specific declarations against climate science and climate scientists. - 24. Rebuttals to climate myths. - Index.