Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Preface
- How do governments assess climate change?
- Section 1 Earth system science: The processes that underlie climate change
- Introduction
- 1 Why is Earth habitable?
- 2 How do greenhouse gases regulate Earth's temperature?
- 3 Is water vapour the most important greenhouse gas?
- 4 Why are clouds the wild card in climate change?
- 5 Is climate change just part of a long-term natural cycle?
- 6 Are climate variations just due to volcanoes or other Earth processes?
- 7 How do El Niño and La Niña events affect South African weather?
- 8 How hot might it get in South Africa this century?
- 9 How might the rainfall in Southern Africa change in the twenty-first century?
- 10 Are extreme weather events related to climate change?
- 11 How do land-use changes and deforestation affect global warming?
- 12 What is South Africa's contribution to global warming?
- 13 What happens to carbon dioxide emissions?
- 14 Can ecosystems keep sucking up carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning?
- 15 Could ocean currents slow down or change direction?
- 16 Is there any chance of runaway global warming?
- Section 2 Consequences of a changing climate for the Southern African environment
- Section 3 Consequences of a changing climate for society
- Section 4 What we can do to avoid and adapt to climate change
- Codicil Is there a dangerous level of climate change?
- Glossary
- List of figures
- References
- Reading list
- Index
11 - How do land-use changes and deforestation affect global warming?
from Section 1 - Earth system science: The processes that underlie climate change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2018
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Preface
- How do governments assess climate change?
- Section 1 Earth system science: The processes that underlie climate change
- Introduction
- 1 Why is Earth habitable?
- 2 How do greenhouse gases regulate Earth's temperature?
- 3 Is water vapour the most important greenhouse gas?
- 4 Why are clouds the wild card in climate change?
- 5 Is climate change just part of a long-term natural cycle?
- 6 Are climate variations just due to volcanoes or other Earth processes?
- 7 How do El Niño and La Niña events affect South African weather?
- 8 How hot might it get in South Africa this century?
- 9 How might the rainfall in Southern Africa change in the twenty-first century?
- 10 Are extreme weather events related to climate change?
- 11 How do land-use changes and deforestation affect global warming?
- 12 What is South Africa's contribution to global warming?
- 13 What happens to carbon dioxide emissions?
- 14 Can ecosystems keep sucking up carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning?
- 15 Could ocean currents slow down or change direction?
- 16 Is there any chance of runaway global warming?
- Section 2 Consequences of a changing climate for the Southern African environment
- Section 3 Consequences of a changing climate for society
- Section 4 What we can do to avoid and adapt to climate change
- Codicil Is there a dangerous level of climate change?
- Glossary
- List of figures
- References
- Reading list
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Climate ChangeBriefings from Southern Africa, pp. 33 - 35Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2015