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Chapter 7 frontispiece.
The Sahel of Africa
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Science of Global Warming and Our Energy
Future, Columbia University Press.
Photograph by D. Haberlah
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Figure 7.1. The change in the average global surface
air temperature relative to the 1961-1990 mean
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Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Trenberth et al., 2007
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Figure 7.2. Geographic trends in temperature, 1979-2005
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Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Trenberth et al., 2007
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Figure 7.3. The change in global temperature deduced
from the glacier advances and retreats, 1600-2000
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Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Oerlemans, 2005
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Figure 7.4. The globally averaged temperatures of the lower
stratosphere and the middle troposphere from various data sets
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Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Lanzante et al., 2006
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Figure 7.5. Changes in
the number of cold and
warm days and nights per
year relative to the mean
values, 1951-2002
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Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia
University Press. Source: Alexander et al., 2006
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Figure 7.6. The change
in the spatial and
globally averaged
Palmer Drought
Severity Index, 19002002
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Science of Global Warming and Our Energy
Future, Columbia University Press. Source:
Trenbreth et al., 2007
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Figure 7.7. Dust storm, April 18, 1935
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and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: NOAA
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Figure 7.8. Records of drought in the American West, 800 to present,
in terms of drought area relative to the long-term mean
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Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Cook et al., 2004
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Figure 7.9. Near the
headwaters of the Indus
River, Karakoram Range,
Pakistan
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Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press.
Photograph by E. Wesker
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Figure 7.10. The extreme summer temperature in 2003, compared with
summer temperatures from 1864 to 2002, Switzerland
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Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Schar et al., 2004
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Figure 7.11. Fire in Yellowstone National Park, 1988
E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our
Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: National Park Service