David Archer
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"Winner of the 2009 Walter P. Kistler Award, The Foundation For the Future" "One of The Australian's Best Books of 2009" "Selected to appear on ClimateUnited's Booklist of Top Books on Climate Change" David Archer is professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including The Global Carbon Cycle (Princeton).
Why a warmer climate may be humanity's longest-lasting legacy
The human impact on Earth's...
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"Second Place in the 2012 Book Series in the Professional Scholarly Series category, New York Book Show" David Archer is professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate and Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, and the coauthor of The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change.
A must-have introduction to this fundamental...
3) Odin
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English
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ODIN IS ABOUT AS SECRET AS A GOVERNMENT AGENCY CAN GET...
Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 5-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series!
Nobody has ever heard of ODIN.
ODIN is about as secret as a government agency can get.
Because within ODIN there is General Operations, which speaks for itself; ODIN 5i, which deals with intelligence gathering, and then there is ODIN...
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English
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"Archer's Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast 2nd Edition, is the first real text to present the science and policy surrounding climate change at the right level. Accompanying videos, simulations and instructional support makes it easier to build a syllabus to improve and create new material on climate change. Archer's polished writing style makes the text entertaining while the improved pedagogy helps better understand key concepts, ideas...
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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"An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades. The history of the Earth's climate has been probed by drilling into polar ice sheets and sediment layers of the oceans' vast depths, and great advances have been made in computer modeling of our climate. This book provides a concise and accessible overview of what we know about ongoing climate change and its impacts, and what we can do to confront...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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"Global warming is arguably the defining scientific issue of modern times, but it is not widely appreciated that the foundations of our understanding were laid almost two centuries ago with the postulation of a greenhouse effect by Fourier in 1827. The sensitivity of climate to changes in atmospheric CO2 was first estimated about one century ago, and the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration was discovered half a century ago. The fundamentals of...
