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Climate change: the impact of capitalism: Naomi Klein: 2014: ISBN 978-1-45169738-4: The Chilling Stars: Climate change: cosmic rays as major contributor: Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder: 2003; 2007 (updated) ISBN 1-84046-815-7: The Climate Book: Causes, effects and possible solutions to the climate crisis: Greta Thunberg and many others: 2022 ...
In Cool It, Lomborg argues his view that many of the elaborate and expensive actions being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars without the same return on investment, often are based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may have very little impact on the world's temperature for centuries.
Climate change can also be used more broadly to include changes to the climate that have happened throughout Earth's history. [32] Global warming—used as early as 1975 [33] —became the more popular term after NASA climate scientist James Hansen used it in his 1988 testimony in the U.S. Senate. [34] Since the 2000s, climate change has ...
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change is a 2005 book by Australian scientist Tim Flannery. It discusses climate change, its scientific basis and effects, and potential solutions. The book received critical acclaim.
A team of researchers from Mainland China and Hong Kong were able to establish a causal connection between climate change and large-scale human crises in pre-industrial times. Short-term crises may be caused by social problems, but climate change was the ultimate cause of major crises, starting with economic depressions. [31]
In his book, "Invisible Iceberg: When Climate and Weather Shaped History", AccuWeather founder and Executive Chairman Dr. Joel N. Myers takes readers on a journey from the beginning of time to ...
The book sets forth the research on "feedback loops" that would contribute to accelerating climate change, including: melting ice at the poles that means less reflection of sunlight by white ice and more absorption of the sun's heat by ocean water and dark land; an increasing amount of water vapor in the atmosphere (water vapor is a greenhouse ...
The main types of extreme weather include heat waves, cold waves and heavy precipitation or storm events, such as tropical cyclones. The effects of extreme weather events are economic costs, loss of human lives, droughts, floods, landslides. Severe weather is a particular type of extreme weather which poses risks to life and property.