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A definitive account of how we have come to understand the fundamental processes behind global warmingSyukuro Manabe is perhaps the leading pioneer of modern climate modeling. Beyond Global Warming is his compelling firsthand account of how the scientific community came to understand the human causes of climate change, and how numerical models using the world’s most powerful computers have been instrumental to these vital discoveries.Joined here by atmospheric scientist Anthony Broccoli, Manabe shows how climate models have been used as virtual laboratories for examining the complex planetary interactions of atmosphere, ocean, and land. Manabe and Broccoli use these studies as the basis for a broader discussion of human-induced global warming—and what the future may hold for a warming planet. They tell the stories of early trailblazers such as Svante Arrhenius, the legendary Swedish scientist who created the first climate model of Earth more than a century ago, and provide rare insights into Manabe’s own groundbreaking work over the past five decades. Expertly walking readers through key breakthroughs, they explain why increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide has caused temperatures to rise in the troposphere yet fall in the stratosphere, why the warming of the planet’s surface differs by hemisphere, why drought is becoming more frequent in arid regions despite the global increase in precipitation, and much more.Authoritative and illuminating, Beyond Global Warming is an invaluable insider’s look at some of today’s most cutting-edge Earth science, and a rare window into a brilliant scientific mind.

Environmental impact analysis. --- 3-D general circulation model. --- A Very Short Introduction. --- CO2 concentration. --- CO2. --- Climate Change. --- E. O. Hulbert. --- GCMs. --- GFDL models. --- Jean-Baptiste Fourier. --- John Tyndall. --- Mark Maslin. --- Norman Phillips. --- Spencer R. Weart. --- Svante Arrhenius. --- The Discovery of Global Warming. --- carbon emissions. --- conservation. --- general circulation models. --- global warming. --- greenhouse effect. --- greenhouse gasses. --- polar amplification. --- radiative equilibrium. --- radiative-connective equilibrium. --- rising sea levels. --- sea level rise. --- superstorms.