Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis

1. Introduction.- Part I - Scientific principles and the scientific method.- 2. scientific principles.- 3. The scientific method and its use.- Part II - Overview of climate change science.- 4. Earth’s energy budget.- 5. Climate change trends.- 6. Earth’s surface temperature.- 7. Climate change science as earth science.-  Part III - Earth’s atmosphere.- 8. Introduction to earth’s atmosphere.- 9. Carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases, and the carbon cycle.- 10. Earth’s albedo, radiative forcing and climate change.- 11. Atmospheric circulation and climate.- Part IV - The world ocean and climate.- 12. The world ocean.- 13. Ocean heat content and rising sea level .-  Part V - Earth’s cryosphere and recent climate history.- 14. Glaciers and the latest ice age.- 15. Permafrost and methane.-  Part VI - Land and its climates.- 16. Continents and mountain ranges.- 17. Climate classifications.- Part VII - Climate models.- 18. Types of models.- Part VIII – Climates of the past (paleoclimatology).- 19. Paleoclimates and proxies.- 20. Climates of the recent past.- 21. Pleistocene glaciations.- Part IX - Future climates and mitigation.- 22. Projections of future climates.- Part X - Skeptics and deniers of global warming.- 23. Understanding climate denial.- Part XI - Specific declarations against climate science and climate scientists.- 24. Rebuttals to climate myths.- Index.