| ISBN: | 9780822351092
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| eISBN: | 9780822394662
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| 专著题名: | Global Climate Change |
| 其他题名: | 全球气候变化读本（精装）
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| 作者: | Orrin H. Pilkey Jr.
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| 出版者: | Duke University Press
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| 出版年: | 2011-06-09
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| 国家: | 美国
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文摘要: | An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engages in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written dozens of books and articles explaining coastal processes to lay readers, and he is a frequent and outspoken interviewee in the mainstream media. Here, the colorful scientist takes on climate change deniers in an outstanding and much-needed primer on the science of global change and its effects.After explaining the greenhouse effect, Pilkey, writing with son Keith, turns to the damage it is causing: sea level rise, ocean acidification, glacier and sea ice melting, changing habitats, desertification, and the threats to animals, humans, coral reefs, marshes, and mangroves. These explanations are accompanied by Mary Edna Fraser’ s stunning batiks depicting the large-scale arenas in which climate change plays out.The Pilkeys directly confront and rebut arguments typically advanced by global change deniers. Particularly valuable are their discussions of “ Climategate,” a manufactured scandal that undermined respect for the scientific community, and the denial campaigns by the fossil fuel industry, which they compare to the tactics used by the tobacco companies a generation ago to obfuscate findings on the harm caused by cigarettes. |
| 丛书名: | 1
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| 资源类型: | 专著
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| 版本: | 1
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/72963
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候变化与战略
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Orrin H. Pilkey Jr.. Global Climate Change[M]. 1:Duke University Press,2011-06-09.
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