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Elizabeth May
Climate Change For Dummies
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Climate Change For Dummies® To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to
www.dummies.com
and search for “Climate Change For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
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Covering the Basics of Climate Change
Getting a Basic Overview — Global Warming 101
Heating things up with GHGs
Investigating other causes of global warming
CLIMATE CHANGE — THE STORY IN A NUTSHELL
Tapping into The Roots of Global Warming
Fueling global warming
Heating up over deforestation
Examining the Effects of Global Warming around the World
The United States and Canada
Latin America
Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia and New Zealand
Small islands
Polar regions
Positive Politics: Governments and Global Warming
Making a difference from city hall to the nation’s capital
Working with a global government
Helping developing countries
Solving the Problem
Changing to alternative energies
Getting down to business
Industrial-strength solutions
Green fixes for forestry and farming
Making it personal
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Looking Closely at Greenhouse Earth
Examining Greenhouse Effect 101
Focusing On Carbon Dioxide: Leader of the Pack
Looking at the carbon cycle
A RECIPE THAT GIVES YOU GAS
Under the deep blue sea
Why people couldn’t survive without plants
Grasslands also play an important role
Down to earth
Investigating humanity’s impact on the carbon cycle
Producing industrial amounts of carbon dioxide
Plugging up the carbon sinks
Checking Out the Other GHGs
SVANTE ARRHENIUS: EARLY CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENTIST
Methane (CH
4
)
How methane gets into the atmosphere
Methane stabilized for a while — still it didn’t
Nitrous oxide (N
2
O)
Hexafluoro-what?
HOW GOOD INTENTIONS INCREASED NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS
Other players on the GHG bench
Water vapor
Ozone depleters
RUNNING UP EMISSIONS WITH YOUR SNEAKERS
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Recognizing the Big Deal about Carbon
Considering Other Causes of Global Warming
Solar cycles — Irradiance and Milankovitch
Cloud cover
Long-term climate trends
EL NIÑO: GLOBAL WARMING CAUSE, EFFECT, OR BOTH?
Making the Case for Carbon
Geologic and prehistoric evidence
Modeling and forecasting
HOW CLIMATE COMPUTER MODELS WORK
A few degrees is a lot
Going, going, gone … The tipping point
Eyeballing the Consequences of Continued Carbon Dioxide Increases
WHY SCIENTISTS COMPARE TEMPERATURES TO THE YEAR 1850
What happens when the mercury rises
Cutting back on carbon
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Living in the Dark Ages of Fossil Fuels
From Fossils to Fuel — How Fossil Fuels Came to Be
Examining the Different Types of Fossil Fuels
Coal
Dissecting coal — What is it?
Lowering pollution from coal plants
Oil
HOW MUCH OIL IS LEFT?
Natural gas
ATHABASCA TAR SANDS: A STICKY SITUATION
Fueling Civilization’s Growth: Adding to the Greenhouse Effect
A growing world population’s impact
Growing economies also play a role
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