The Challenge of global warming / edited by Dean Edwin Abrahamson.

Publ. in assoc. with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Includes index (pages 341-351)

Includes bibliographical references.

Part I The Challenge of Global Warming -- Chapter 1 Global Warming: The Issue, Impacts, Responses -- Chapter 2 The Greenhouse Effect: Impacts on Current Global Temperature and Regional Heat Waves -- Chapter 3 The Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Global Security -- Chapter 4 The Scientific Consensus Villach (Austria) Conference -- Part II
Global Warming: Biotic Systems -- Chapter 5 Biotic Causes and Effects of the Disruption of the Global Carbon Cycle -- Chapter 6 Effects of Global Warming on Biological Diversity -- Chapter 7 Developing Policies for Responding to Climate
Change -- Part III Global Warming: Phisical Impacts -- Chapter 8 Greenhouse Effects and Impacts on Physical
Systems -- Chapter 9 Scientific Basis for the Greenhouse Effect -- Chapter 10 Changes in Soil Moisture -- Chapter 11 Effects of Climatic Change on Water Supplies in the Western United States -- Chapter 12 The Causes and Effects of Sea Level Rise -- Chapter 13 Greenhouse Surprises -- Part IV The Greenhouse Gases -- Chapter 14 Sources, Sinks, Trends, and Opportunities -- Chapter 15 Global Warming, Acid Rain, and Ozone Depletion -- Chapter 16 Observed Increases in Greenhouse Gases and Predicted Climatic Changes -- Chapter 17 Methae, CFCs, and Other Greenhouse Gases -- Part V Policy Responses -- Chapter 18 The Dangers from Climate Warming: A Public Awakening -- Chapter 19 One Last Chance for a National Energy Policy -- Chapter 20 An Analysis of the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer -- Chapter 21 Near-Term Congressional Options for Responding to Global Climate Change.