Introduction to Modern Climate Change - Softcover

Dessler, Andrew E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521173159 ISBN 13: 9780521173155

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This introductory textbook on the problem of modern climate change – science, economics and policy – enables informed debate of public policy.

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About the Author

Andrew E. Dessler is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1994. He did postdoctoral work at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (1994–1996) and then spent nine years on the faculty of the University of Maryland (1996–2005). In 2000, he worked as a Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he collaborated with Ted Parson. Dessler's academic publications include three books: The Chemistry and Physics of Stratospheric Ozone (Academic Press, 2000), The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate (with Ted Parson, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 2010) and Introduction to Modern Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He has also published extensively in the scientific literature on stratospheric ozone depletion and the physics of climate.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521173159
• ISBN 13: 9780521173155
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252