Climate Change
Causes, Consequences and Ways of Overcoming Global Warming
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editor: Trevor Letcher
- Language: English
Climate Change: Causes, Consequences and Ways of Overcoming Global Warming focuses on the underlying cause of global warming and investigates the other possible causes of glo… Read more
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Description
Description
Climate Change: Causes, Consequences and Ways of Overcoming Global Warming focuses on the underlying cause of global warming and investigates the other possible causes of global warming. This book will also evaluate ways to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. This book will include a discussion on atmospheric chemistry and the effect of CO2 in the atmosphere, the influence of ozone on global warming, a history of the earth’s climate, solar radiation changes and global warming, the effect of space weather on global warming, agricultural practices and global warming, and the effect of the Earth’s movements on global warming.
Key features
Key features
- Gives an underlying explanation of the root causes of climate change through an in-depth look at atmospheric chemistry and the role of CO2 in the heating of the planet
- Written by world experts in the field of climate change, giving readers the most up-to-date knowledge on each topic
- Evaluates ways of reducing human reliance on fossil fuels
Readership
Readership
Students, professors, and researchers interested in climate change and global warming
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change
3. Ozone and Climate Change
4. A History of the Earth’s Changing Climate
5. Molecular Modeling of Climate Change
6. Contributing Factors to Climate Change: variation in the Earth’s movement
7. Contributing Factors to Climate Change
8. Contributing Factors to Climate Change and Global Warming: atmospheric aerosols
9. Contributing Factors to Climate Change and Global Warming: solar radiation change
10. Contributing Factors to Climate Change and Global Warming: space weather and cosmic rays
11. Contributing Factors to Global Warming: Agricultural practices
12. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: renewable energy
13. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: Forestation
14. Ways to Reduce the Effects of climate change: Carbon Capture and Sequestration
15. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: Transport Issues
16. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: Climate Engineering
2. Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change
3. Ozone and Climate Change
4. A History of the Earth’s Changing Climate
5. Molecular Modeling of Climate Change
6. Contributing Factors to Climate Change: variation in the Earth’s movement
7. Contributing Factors to Climate Change
8. Contributing Factors to Climate Change and Global Warming: atmospheric aerosols
9. Contributing Factors to Climate Change and Global Warming: solar radiation change
10. Contributing Factors to Climate Change and Global Warming: space weather and cosmic rays
11. Contributing Factors to Global Warming: Agricultural practices
12. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: renewable energy
13. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: Forestation
14. Ways to Reduce the Effects of climate change: Carbon Capture and Sequestration
15. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: Transport Issues
16. Ways to Reduce the Effects of Climate Change: Climate Engineering
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: September 1, 2026
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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Trevor Letcher
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa