Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of Sage Reference's new three-volume Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change. The General Editor of the encyclopedia is S. George Philander, Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University and Research Director of ACCESS (African Centre for Climate and Earth System Science) in Cape Town.
Many scientists believe global warming and climate change are producing a wide variety of physical impacts on the earth's atmosphere, land, and oceans. These changes include increases in global mean temperature, storm severity, droughts, sea levels and glacial retreat. And there is solid evidence humans are continuing to alter the composition of the atmosphere at a rapid rate. Sage Reference's new reference volumes explain the intricate processes that make the earth the only planet known to be habitable.
The reference is seen to capture an integrated vision of all global warming's relevant issues - including theories, processes, problems, policies and key individuals. The 750 articles are claimed to clearly illuminate climate change's science and history, polarizing controversies, industrial and economic factors and sociological aspects. A full-colour, 16-page introduction to global warming is seen to give readers a comprehensive, visual overture to the complexities of climate change, while a climatic chronology puts the entire topic in its historical context.
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