Weather : How it Works and Why it Matters

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Cover page; title page; copyright page; acknowledgments; illustrations; preface; 1 introduction; 2 temperature and pressure: the fundamentals of air; 3 it's not the heat, it's the heat and the humidity; 4 the four seasons; 5 other worlds: lessons from comparative planetology; 6 weather wisdom and lore; 7 stormy wfathfr; 8 when time stood still: the ancient history of the climate; 9 here come the glaciers; 10 the post-glacial period: homo sapiens comes of age; 11 the greenhouse gases: making our own world; 12 oceans: the majority rules; 13 el niño: from hoax to menace; 14 ozone, good and bad. 15 two worlds16 energy: production and consumption; 17 the world in a future climate; 18 global warming the everyman misconception; a final statement; appendix i: mass and weight; appendix ii: air pressure and density; appendix iii: absorption and condensation; appendix iv: the coriolis effect and the prevailing westerlies; appendix v: further remarks on the causes of mass extinotions; appendix vi: instances of global warming; bibliography; index