Böcker av L. D. Danny Harvey

Transforming our energy supplies to be more sustainable is seen by many to be the biggest challenge. This book presents the path we must take to minimize the effects that the way we harness energy can have on future climate change.

Reducing and managing humanity's demand for energy is a fundamental part of the effort to mitigate climate change. This book begins with a summary of the scientific basis for concern over global warming, and then outlines energy basics and current patterns and trends in energy use.

Climate change is regarded as a fundamental aspect of enviromental study. This book examines the significance of climate as one of the major forcing funtions in in the global environmental change process. It emphasizes both human-induced and natural climatic change.

'Global Warming: The Hard Science' presents a comprehensive, qualitatively rigorous, and critical discussion of the science underlying the global warming issue. The major processes in the climate system needed to understand projected human-induced climatic change are presented in detail.