What Really Causes Global Warming? : Greenhouse Gases or Ozone Depletion?

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword A More Persuasive Truth -- Preface -- Notes for the Reader -- Special Thanks -- Overview Climate Is Never "Settled," and Neither Is Science -- Chapter 1 How I Came to Wonder About Climate Change -- Living More...
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword A More Persuasive Truth -- Preface -- Notes for the Reader -- Special Thanks -- Overview Climate Is Never "Settled," and Neither Is Science -- Chapter 1 How I Came to Wonder About Climate Change -- Living More Safely With Earthquakes -- Living More Safely With Volcanic Eruptions -- Living More Safely With Climate -- Discovering a More Likely Cause of Global Warming -- Chapter 2 Could Climate Change Science Be Mistaken? -- Adapting to Change -- What Is Science? -- Is There a Role For Belief in Science? -- Scientists and Politicians Have Worked Well Together -- Where Am I Coming From? -- Where Am I (and You) Going? -- Chapter 3 Why Did Global Temperatures Stop Increasing in 1998? -- Temperature Trends -- The Stark Divergence Between Increasing Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Invariant Temperature -- Rationalizing the Role of Natural Variations in Climate -- The Ozone Depletion Theory of Global Warming -- Chapter 4 Do We Really Understand Thermal Energy? -- What Is Light? -- What Is an Electromagnetic Field? -- What Is Energy? -- What Is Thermal Energy? -- What Is Radiation? -- What Is Temperature? -- A Problem With Spectral Radiance As Used in Planck's Law -- Energy Is Clearly Observed to Increase With Increasing Frequency of Oscillation -- Why Can't Thermal Energy Propagate as Waves? -- Why Can't Thermal Energy Propagate as Photons? -- Potential Radiant Temperature and the Amplitude of Oscillation -- Thermal Energy Is a Spectrum of Frequencies -- Chapter 5 How Does the Atmosphere Protect Earth From Sun's "Hottest" Radiation? -- How Does the Upper Atmosphere Absorb the Highest Energy Solar Radiation? -- How Does Oxygen Absorb Solar Radiation? -- How Does the Ozone Layer Protect Earth from Sun's "Hottest" Radiation?. Ausführliche Beschreibung