Indicators of Climate Change - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0443328382 ISBN 13: 9780443328381

Verlag: Elsevier, 2025

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Indicators of Climate Change focuses on the root causes of global warming and climate change. The book includes detailed discussions on the indicators of climate change, highlighting the rapidity of the changes. Indicators discussed in this book 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 also highlights fossil fuels, the root cause of climate change, and the urgency of the problem.

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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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Elsevier
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0443328382
• ISBN 13: 9780443328381
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 442
• Herausgeber: Letcher
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