Archer & Rahmstorf (2010) "The Climate Crisis", Table of contents

• David Archer & Stefan Rahmstorf, 2010: The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change. Cambridge Univ. Press, 249 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-73255-0.

Contents
Preface
1. Retrospective: what we knew and when we knew it
 - Awareness of the past
 - Understanding climate
 - Finding the smoking gun
 - Summary
2. Earth's energy budget
 - The concept of radiative forcing
 - Greenhouse gases
 - Other human-related climate forcings
 - Climate forcings that are not our fault
 - Summary
3. Climate change so far
 - Temperature changes
 - Rain and snow
 - Clouds and radiation
 - Patterns of atmospheric circulation
 - Tropical storms
 - Causes of the observed climate changes
 - Summary
4. Snow and ice
 - Ice sheets
 - Sea ice
 - Permafrost
 - Summary
5. How the oceans are changing
 - The oceans are heating up
 - Sweet or salty?
 - Are ocean currents changing?
 - Sea level rise
 - The oceans are turning sour
 - Summary
6. The past is the key to the future
 - Climate changes over millions of years
 - The Paleocene Eocene thermal maximum (PETM)
 - Pliocene
 - Glacial cycles
 - Our current interglacial period
 - The last 2000 years
 - The instrumental period
 - Summary
7. What the future holds
 - Scenarios or predictions?
 - How future climate is computed
 - How warm will it get?
 - Rainfall changes
 - How high will the seas rise?
 - Changing ocean currents?
 - Ice and snow changes
 - How sour will the oceans get?
 - Summary
8. Impacts of climate change
 - Are plants and animals already feeling the heat?
 - The future of nature
 - Food, water, health: how global warming will affect us
 - Can we adapt?
9. Avoiding climate change
 - Energy supply: the present, the forecast, and what can be changed
 - Energy consumption
 - Other mitigation strategies
 - A more optimistic vision
 - What it will cost
10. Climate policy
 - Do we need a climate policy?
 - What global policy targets?
 - Global conflict, or unprecedented global cooperation?
Epilogue
References
Illustration credits
Index