Climate Change

Causes, Consequences and Ways of Overcoming Global Warming
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-443-32834-3
Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Letcher, Trevor

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Global Warming and Fossil Fuels
2. Climate Change through Earth History
3. Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change
4. The Earth’s Movements (Orbital and Inclination) and Climate Impact
5. Variations in Solar radiation and Global Warming.
6. Agricultural practices and their contribution to Global Warming
7. Volcanic Inputs to the Stratosphere: Climate Effects of Aerosols and Water Vapor
8. Climate Change within the Context of Environmental Systems Science
9. Human Health and Climate Change
10. Global Warming, Extreme Weather and Climate Change
11. Consequences of Climate Change on Crop Production
12. Renewable Energy to replace Fossil Fuel
13. Small Modular Reactors
14. Geo-engineering
15. Soil re-carbonization
16. Carbon Capture using Bioengineered Algae
17. Geological Hydrogen
18. Biofuels

Über Autor(innen)

Letcher, Trevor
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.