Climate Change in the Polar Regions

by Gareth J. Marshall and John Turner

The polar regions have experienced some remarkable environmental changes in recent decades, such as the Antarctic ozone hole, the loss of large amounts of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean and major warming on the Antarctic Peninsula. The polar regions are also predicted to warm more than any other region on Earth over the next century if greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise. Yet trying to separate natural climate variability from anthropogenic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052185010X
• ISBN13: 9780521850100
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.7"