دانلود کتاب Less Heat, More Light: A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change

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Contents\nPreface\nAcknowledgments\nA Note on Units\nROOM ONE Weather and Climate SIMPLE OR COMPLEX?\n1 Was Svante Right?\n2 Occam’s Razor and the Case for Simpler Explanations\nROOM TWO From Weather to Climate DYNAMICS IN TIME AND SPACE\n3 The Basics of Weather and Climate—It’s Simple!\n4 If Weather and Climate Are Simple, Why Is Prediction So Hard?\n5 El Niño Is Only the Beginning: Major Climate Oscillations\n6 What Can Ice Tell Us about Rapid Climate Change?\n7 Extremes We Will Never See\nROOM THREE Earth System Science as a Process HOW IT WORKS, AND WORKS FOR US\n8 How Long Does It Take to Shift a Paradigm?\n9 The Stages of Environmental Grief\nROOM FOUR Climate Change THE DATA, THE MODELS, AND OUR FUTURE\n10 The Discovery (and Rediscovery) of Climate Change\n11 Simplifying the Explanation: How Right Was Svante?\n12 Predictions and Possible Surprises\nEpilogue: Making It Local\nBibliographic Essay\nFigure Credits\nIndex