Climate Change and Its Biological Consequences

Download or read book Climate Change and Its Biological Consequences written by David Murray Gates and published by Sinauer Associates, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the forces that shape the earth's climate and how climate change, particularly greenhouse warming, may impact ecosystems and agriculture. Past climates and past ecosystem changes are reviewed in order to best understand the future. Scientists are predicting a 3 C increase in the Earth's climate within 75 to 100 years. This rate of temperature change and the warmer conditions will stress many organisms and probably realign some ecosystems. Special events, such as El Nino and the stratospheric ozone hole, are significant features of global change considered.