Global Climate Change and California; potential impacts and responses

Knox, Joseph B. Scheuring, Ann Foley

ISBN 10: 0520075552 / ISBN 13: 9780520075559

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991

About this Item

Green illustrated dj. Small quarto with cloth boards. 184 pages; illustrations, maps, graphs, tables. Global climate change: impacts on California: an introduction and overview / Joseph B. Knox -- Greenhouse gases: changing the global climate / Michael C. MacCracken -- Our changing atmosphere: trace gases and the greenhouse effect / F. Sherwood Rowland -- The quest for reliable regional scenarios of climate change / W. Lawrence Gates -- Global climate change and California's water resources / Henry J. Vaux, Jr. -- Global climate change and California agriculture / Lowell Lewis, William Rains, and Lynne Kennedy -- Global climate change and California's natural ecosystems / Daniel B. Botkin [and others] -- Global warming from an energy perspective / Allen G. Edwards -- Studying the human dimensions of global climate change / Richard A. Berk -- Epilogue / Joseph B. Knox and Noreen G. Dowling. Climatic changes -- California. Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric -- California. NATURE -- Weather. SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology. Climatic changes. Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric. Earth & Environmental Sciences. Meteorology & Climatology. Partly faded spine. Mild ding to bottom of spine. Else a near fine copy. Dented dj at the foot of the spine. in near fine dust-jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Global Climate Change and California; potential impacts and responses
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520075552
• ISBN 13: 9780520075559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • California

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Synopsis

California's extraordinary ecological and economic diversity has brought it prosperity, pollution, and overpopulation. These factors and the state's national and international ties make California an essential test case for the impact of global climate change―temperature increases, water shortages, more ultraviolet radiation. The scientists in this forward-looking volume give their best estimates of what the future holds.

Beginning with an overview by Joseph Knox, the book discusses the greenhouse effect, the latest climate modeling capabilities, the implications of climate change for water resources, agriculture, biological ecosystems, human behavior, and energy.

The warning inherent in a scenario of unchecked population growth and energy use in California applies to residents of the entire planet. The sobering conclusions related here include recommendations for research that will help us all prepare for potential climate change.

About the Author

Joseph B. Knox, division leader of atmospheric and geophysical sciences at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is Director of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change in Davis, California. Ann Foley Scheuring is a professional editor and writer affiliated with the University of California, Davis.