Human impacts on weather and climate

Abstract

As world population grows there is increasing evidence that human activities are having a significant impact on weather and climate, from a local to global scale. This book is a non-mathematical presentation of the basic physical concepts of how human activity may affect our weather and climate. It assesses the current hypotheses and examines whether the impacts are measurable. Included are critical evaluations of the scientific status of weather modification by cloud seeding, human impacts on regional weather and climate, and human impacts on global climate, including the greenhouse gas hypothesis. Also included are discussions of the modern philosophy of science and its application to determining human impacts on weather and climate. -from Publisher