文档介绍：SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
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Global Change
Interviews with Leading Climate Scientists
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Preface
What are climate scientists doing exactly? Which methods are they using for their
research? What is the current level of understanding about climate change and
global warming? What is still uncertain or unknown?
These questions are not only interesting for the munity itself but
also draw an increasing attention from a more general public. Terms like ‘‘climate
change’’, ‘‘global warming’’ or ‘‘the greenhouse effect’’ have e part of
common speech during the past decade. Sometimes, it seems important to recall
that it is still the scientific research, that for