Indicators of Climate Change

Trevor Letcher

ISBN 10: 0443328382 / ISBN 13: 9780443328381

Published by Elsevier Science & Technology, Elsevier Nov 2025, 2025

About this Item

Neuware - Indicators of Climate Change focuses on the root causes of global warming and climate change. The book includes detailed discussions on the indicators of climate change, highlighting the rapidity of the changes. Indicators discussed in this book include the rise in the average atmospheric temperature, ocean heat, rising sea levels, melting ice sheets and glaciers, changes in plant adaption, changes in insect adaption, and weather pattern changes. The book also highlights fossil fuels, the root cause of climate change, and the urgency of the problem.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Indicators of Climate Change
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, Elsevier Nov 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443328382
• ISBN 13: 9780443328381
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 190H x 35D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 190 millimeters height by 35 millimeters depth
• Weight: 880 grams

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Synopsis

Indicators of Climate Change focuses on the root causes of global warming and climate change. The book includes detailed discussions on the indicators of climate change, highlighting the rapidity of the changes. Indicators discussed in this book include the rise in the average atmospheric temperature, ocean heat, rising sea levels, melting ice sheets and glaciers, changes in plant adaption, changes in insect adaption, and weather pattern changes. The book also highlights fossil fuels, the root cause of climate change, and the urgency of the problem.

• Provides an all-embracing look at the main cause and many indicators of climate change
• Written by world experts in the fields of climate change, giving readers the most up-to-date state of each topic
• Contains copious lists of references so that readers will be able to further their studies

About the Author

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.