This book describes thoroughly the North American Climate of the past 65 million years, with special emphasis on the last 21,000 years, as revealed by paleoclimatic observations and climate models. It analyzes weather observations over the past century and satellite measurements of the last few decades to develop a picture of more recent climatic trends. It explains how global climate models ar…
Global warming is the occurrence of an increase in the average temperature in the atmosphere, ocean and earth's land mass that can cause the extreme climate change, making it more difficult to predict seasonal patterns. Global warming not only has an impact on environmental change but can also interfere with human health. Livestock sector contributes to global warming through the CO2 and methan…
REDD (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) is based on a simple idea: pay developing countries to reduce CO2 emissions from the forest sector. Nevertheless, design and implementation of a REDD system raise many hard questions: How are emissions reductions monitored, reported and verified? How should REDD be finaced? Should payments be directed to countries, projects or …