Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Retrospective: what we knew and when we knew it
- 2 Earth's energy budget
- 3 Climate change so far
- 4 Snow and ice
- 5 How the oceans are changing
- 6 The past is the key to the future
- 7 What the future holds
- 8 Impacts of climate change
- 9 Avoiding climate change
- 10 Climate policy
- Epilogue
- References
- Illustration credits
- Index
9 - Avoiding climate change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Retrospective: what we knew and when we knew it
- 2 Earth's energy budget
- 3 Climate change so far
- 4 Snow and ice
- 5 How the oceans are changing
- 6 The past is the key to the future
- 7 What the future holds
- 8 Impacts of climate change
- 9 Avoiding climate change
- 10 Climate policy
- Epilogue
- References
- Illustration credits
- Index
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- The Climate CrisisAn Introductory Guide to Climate Change, pp. 191 - 220Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009