CO2 : Earth’s climate driver / Wally Broecker.

By: Broecker, Wallace S. (Wallace Smith), 1931-2019.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: 2018Description: 1 online resource illustrations.Other title: Carbon dioxide : Earth's climate driver.Subject(s): ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE | WATER VAPOUR | SUN | SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES | CARBON DIOXIDE | CALCIUM CARBONATE | SILICATE ROCKS | CARBONATE ROCKS | CHEMICAL WEATHERING | PALEOCLIMATOLOGY | GLACIOLOGY | ICE SHEETS | CLIMATIC CHANGES | TEMPERATURE | ARID ENVIRONMENT | GREENHOUSE GASES | TRACE METALS | PALEOCLIMATE | SEDIMENT ANALYSIS | RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPESHoldings: ELECTRONIC Online resources: NIWA document server | Columbia University pdf
Contents:
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Faint Young Sun -- Chapter 2. Snowball Earth -- Chapter 3. The Collision which Changed Everything -- Chapter 4. A Short-lived Hot Spell -- Chapter 5. Glacial Cycles -- Chapter 6. Fossil Fuel CO2 -- End Piece.
Summary: Averaged across the Earth’s surface, the temperature is close to 15°C. In the absence of reflectors on one hand and greenhouse gases on the other, its temperature would be only about 5°C. Important to our discussions is that clouds, ice and other reflectors reduce the Earth’s temperature by about 25°C and H2O vapor, CO2 and other greenhouse gases increase it by about 35°C. As both reflectivity and greenhouse strength have varied over the course of geologic time, so has the Earth’s surface temperature.
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Introduction -- Chapter 1. Faint Young Sun -- Chapter 2. Snowball Earth -- Chapter 3. The Collision which Changed Everything -- Chapter 4. A Short-lived Hot Spell -- Chapter 5. Glacial Cycles -- Chapter 6. Fossil Fuel CO2 -- End Piece.

Averaged across the Earth’s surface, the temperature is close to 15°C. In the absence of reflectors on one hand and greenhouse gases on the other, its temperature would be only about 5°C. Important to our discussions is that clouds, ice and other reflectors reduce the Earth’s temperature by about 25°C and H2O vapor, CO2 and other greenhouse gases increase it by about 35°C. As both reflectivity and greenhouse strength have varied over the course of geologic time, so has the Earth’s surface temperature.

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