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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
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36 Engineering Response to Climate Change
1.5 About This Book
In the remainder of this book, we set the stage by discussing the separate
issues of the emissions of radiatively important atmospheric constituents,
energy demand, energy supply, agriculture, water resources, coastal haz-
ards, adaption strategies, and geoengineering.
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Zonal temperature departure from the 1951–1980 mean for January 2010. (Courtesy of National
Climate Data Center, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/.)
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January 2010 Tsurf(°C) anomaly vs. 1951–1980
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