Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) - Image 1

£37.93

University of Washington Press Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

Name: Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
Brand: University of Washington Press
Price: 37.93 GBP
Availability: InStock

Meteorology

Price data last checked 103 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£38 today · previous high £38 · all-time low £14

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 628 days • 628 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 628 days • 9 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £25 (242 days, 38.5%)

Price range: £14 - £38

Price levels: 9 different prices over 628 days

Description

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of research, however, our global society has yet to find real solutions to the problem of global warming. Why? In Behind the Curve, Joshua Howe attempts to answer this question. He explores the history of global warming from its roots as a scientific curiosity to its place at the center of international environmental politics. The book follows the story of rising CO2—illustrated by the now famous Keeling Curve—through a number of historical contexts, highlighting the relationships among scientists, environmentalists, and politicians as those relationships changed over time. The nature of the problem itself, Howe explains, has privileged scientists as the primary spokespeople for the global climate. But while the “science first” forms of advocacy they developed to fight global warming produced more and better science, the primacy of science in global warming politics has failed to produce meaningful results. In fact, an often exclusive focus on science has left advocates for change vulnerable to political opposition and has limited much of the discussion to debates about the science itself. As a result, while we know much more about global warming than we did fifty years ago, CO2 continues to rise. In 1958, Keeling first measured CO2 at around 315 parts per million; by 2013, global CO2 had soared to 400 ppm. The problem is not getting better - it's getting worse. Behind the Curve offers a critical and levelheaded look at how we got here.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Washington Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0295993685
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Earth Sciences > Meteorology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 February 2014
Listed Since: 08 November 2013

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Washington Press Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Energy Policy in the Greenhouse: From warming fate to warming limit (Energy and Infrastructure Set)

The European Carbon Tax: An Economic Assessment: 1 (Economics, Energy and Environment, 1)

Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: The Hungarian Perspective

Climate and Energy Governance for the UK Low Carbon Transition: The Climate Change Act 2008

Modern Climate Change Science: An Overview of Today’s Climate Change Science (SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science)

The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change: Public Understanding and Decision Making (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)

Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology (Springer Praxis Books)

Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology (Springer Praxis Books)

Climate Change 2021 – The Physical Science Basis: Working Group I Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Assessing Climate Change: Temperatures, Solar Radiation and Heat Balance (Springer Praxis Books)

Global Climate Change Policy and Carbon Markets: Transition to a New Era (Energy, Climate and the Environment)

CRC Press - Understanding Global Climate Change Textbook

Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming

Global Climate Change Policy and Carbon Markets: Transition to a New Era (Energy, Climate and the Environment)

The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy (The Earthscan Science in Society Series)

Reversing Climate Change: How Carbon Removals Can Resolve Climate Change And Fix The Economy (Environmental Energy Economics)

Stopping Climate Change: Policies for Real Zero (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy)

The Economics of Climate Change Policies: Macroeconomic Effects, Structural Adjustments and Technological Change (Sustainability and Innovation)

Post-2020 Climate Change Regime Formation (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)

Exploring Climate Change through Science and in Society: An anthology of Mike Hulme's essays, interviews and speeches

The Economics of Climate Change Policies: Macroeconomic Effects, Structural Adjustments and Technological Change (Sustainability and Innovation)

Beyond Kyoto - A New Global Climate Certificate System: Continuing Kyoto Commitsments or a Global ´Cap and Trade´ Scheme for a Sustainable Climate Policy?

Edward Elgar - Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol Book

Climate Change: Critical Concepts in the Environment