The Global Carbon Cycle
Subtitle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World (Scope Series)
Contributors: Chris Field (Editor); Michael Raupach (Editor); Susan Hill MacKenzie (Preface)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: March 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9781559635264
Subjects: Environmental Chemistry; Global warming; Nature; Effect of human beings on; Environmental Policy; Science; Greenhouse gas mitigation; Nature/Ecology; Environmental Science; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Science / Environmental Science; Weather; Atmospheric carbon dioxide; Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
First sentence: It has been more than a century since Arrhenius (1896) first concluded that continued emissions of carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels could lead to a warmer climate.