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Table of Contents. • The book is a short 175 pages and has 14 chapters with reader-friendly diagrams • Each chapter can be read in its own right, so you can pick it up at any chapter Click on the headings below to see introductions for each chapter |
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1. The climate debate Time travel The main event Solutions before answers False prophets Models and history Pivotal questions A narrow debate Chapter 2. Climate and chaos What is linked with what? Chaos or non-linear theory Balance, stability and tipping points In awe Chapter 3. Wheels within wheels Cycles everywhere The Grand Ice Ages Ice sorties Some smaller cycles Cycles and blind alleys Chapter 4. The warming stairway The mysterious pattern Why the same gradient? Excuses Best type fits Messages from human history Messages from glaciers Up the wrong tree Final reflections Chapter 5. A weather armageddon The weather scare-line Destructive storms The parched Earth The scorched Earth An ever restless climate The fictitious storyline Chapter 6. Sea level rise – steady as she goes Aquaphobia No pedal on the metal Satellites or tide gauges? What to believe? The right choice |
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7. Estimating coastal retreat New lines in the sand Tide gauges versus the satellite The iniquitous Bruun Rule Storm surges Regional coastal policy Chapter 8. The poles will drown us Heroic adventure and mythology The Arctic pack The Antarctic pack Ocean currents and pack ice The polar land masses and ice sheets Greenland and ice loss Antarctic ice losses and gains Spanner in the works No surprises A last look Chapter 9. The greenhouse effect The jig-saw puzzle The main game Sponges in the sky A picky bunch The order of merit The slippery eel The second lieutenant A stark conclusion Chapter 10. The models – we expected too much! Model making Model headaches Tuning Going separate ways A stubborn riposte Climate sensitivity Water vapour headaches It gets worse More on clouds A lower ECS No longer swamped A respect for history |
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11. Is the sun still king? White-washing the Sun The star player No escape The spotted Sun The magnetic cycles The solar waistline Solar wobbles UV-rays at work Total Solar Irradiance Who is the boss? History speaks The sunspot evidence The magnetic cloud switch The solar solution Chapter 12. Other climate shocks In the looking glass Other shocks Global cooling Meteor and comet strikes Solar flares Volcanoes The frozen methane bomb Super-floods A final perspective Chapter 13. A final check on the IPCC The global watchman IPCC presumptions The watchman’s report On track Off the rails A word muddle Frozen in time Conflicts of interest The IPCC pasta machine Chapter 14. Leaving the maze No big deal The accelerator bug The catastrophic fever The simplicity trap A stark perspective The tangled web Dressed to kill A blessing or a curse? Lost in a maze Whither the IPCC? Whither science? |
