Climate systems interactive forces of global warming /

• Main Author: Casper, Julie Kerr.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Facts on File, c2009.
• Series: Global warming (Facts on File, Inc.)
• Subjects: Climatology > Popular works.; Global warming > Popular works.; SCIENCE > Meteorology & Climatology. > Earth Sciences; Electronic books.
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Provides the scientific framework of the Earth's climate system and explains the concepts of global warming.

Table of Contents:

• Elements of the climate system
• The carbon cycle and its links to other major cycles
• Plate tectonics : climate and movement of the earth's continents
• The flow of energy
• Planetary and global motions in the atmosphere that affect climate
• Local motions in the atmosphere that affect weather and climate
• Ocean currents
• The global warming issue
• The big picture
• Conclusions and a glance into the future.