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La température au Congo belge
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Year: 1947 Publisher: Bruxelles : Ministère des Colonies, Direction de l'Agriculture,

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Hot talk, cold science : global warming's unfinished debate
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ISBN: 0945999755 Year: 1997 Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : The Independent Institute,


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Loess, environment and global change
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ISBN: 7030026608 9787030026606 Year: 1991 Publisher: Beijing, China : Science Press,


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Science and fiction of the greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide
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Year: 1992 Publisher: The Hague, Netherlands : Global Institute for the Study of Natural Resources,


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Changements climatiques & biodiversité
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ISBN: 9782311000269 2311000268 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris: Vuibert, AFAS,

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Etude des conséquences du changement climatique sur le monde du vivant et la biodiversité. Des exemples concrets pris dans différents milieux, temps et régions, sont proposés pour illustrer le propos, suivis d'un aperçu sur le difficile problème de la modélisation des réactions du monde du vivant aux changements climatiques.


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A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming
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ISBN: 1282899317 9786612899317 0262294109 9780262294102 9780262518635 9781282899315 9780262013925 0262013924 0262518635 661289931X Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press,

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Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, "sound science." In A Vast Machine Paul Edwards has news for these doubters: without models, there are no data. Today, no collection of signals or observations--even from satellites, which can "see" the whole planet with a single instrument--becomes global in time and space without passing through a series of data models. Everything we know about the world's climate we know through models. Edwards offers an engaging and innovative history of how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere--to measure it, trace its past, and model its future. Edwards argues that all our knowledge about climate change comes from three kinds of computer models: simulation models of weather and climate; reanalysis models, which recreate climate history from historical weather data; and data models, used to combine and adjust measurements from many different sources. Meteorology creates knowledge through an infrastructure (weather stations and other data platforms) that covers the whole world, making global data. This infrastructure generates information so vast in quantity and so diverse in quality and form that it can be understood only by computer analysis--making data global. Edwards describes the science behind the scientific consensus on climate change, arguing that over the years data and models have converged to create a stable, reliable, and trustworthy basis for the reality of global warming.


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Interactions of C, N, P and S biogeochemical cycles and global change : [proceedings of the NATO Advanced research workshop on interactions of C, N, P and S biogeochemical cycles held at Melreux, Belgium, March 4-8, 1991]
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ISBN: 3540531262 0387531262 364276066X 3642760643 9780387531267 9783540531265 Year: 1993 Volume: 4 Publisher: Berlin: Springer,

Plows, plagues, and petroleum : how humans took control of climate
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ISBN: 9780691146348 9780691133980 9780691121648 0691146349 0691133980 0691121648 9780691121642 Year: 2005 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press,

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The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? William Ruddiman's provocative new book argues that humans have actually been changing the climate for some 8,000 years--as a result of the earlier discovery of agriculture. The "Ruddiman Hypothesis" will spark intense debate. We learn that the impact of farming on greenhouse-gas levels, thousands of years before the industrial revolution, kept our planet notably warmer than if natural climate cycles had prevailed--quite possibly forestalling a new ice age. 'Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum' is the first book to trace the full historical sweep of human interaction with Earth's climate. Ruddiman takes us through three broad stages of human history: when nature was in control; when humans began to take control, discovering agriculture and affecting climate through carbon dioxide and methane emissions; and, finally, the more recent human impact on climate change. Along the way he raises the fascinating possibility that plagues, by depleting human populations, also affected reforestation and thus climate--as suggested by dips in greenhouse gases when major pandemics have occurred. The book concludes by looking to the future and critiquing the impact of special interest money on the global warming debate. Eminently readable and far-reaching in argument, 'Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum' shows us that even as civilization developed, we were already changing the climate in which we lived.

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