Global Climatology and Ecodynamics [electronic resource] : Anthropogenic Changes to Planet Earth / by Arthur P. Cracknell, Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin.

The seminal nature of the work of Kirill Kondratyev -- Kirill Kondratyev and the IPCC: His opposition to the Kyoto Protocol -- The Earth radiation budget, 20 years later (1985–2005) -- Aerosol and atmospheric electricity -- Remote sensing of terrestrial chlorophyll content -- Regarding greenhouse explosion -- Model-based method for the assessment of global change in the nature—Society system -- Self-learning statistical short-term climate predictive model for Europe -- Theory of series of exponents and their application for analysis of radiation processes -- Forecast of biosphere dynamics using small-scale models -- Air temperature changes at White Sea shores and islands in the 19th and 20th centuries -- Climatic characteristics of temperature, humidity, and wind velocity in the atmospheric boundary layer over western Siberia -- Ecological safety and the risks of hydrocarbon transportation in the Baltic Sea -- New directions in biophysical ecology -- The Earth as an open ecosystem -- Problems of the sustainable development of ecological-economic systems -- Sustainable development problems in the context of global ecoinformatics -- “Sustainability—no hope!” or “Sustainability—no hope?”.

Uncertainties of information on the problems of global climatology are a principal barrier for adequate understanding of the anthropogenic effects on global ecodynamics. The purpose of the book is to summarize existing information and assess the level of these uncertainties. We want to stimulate readers to think in the longer term about climate change and ecological damage that is being done to the planet Earth in the hope that it may remain fit for human habitation and a satisfying life style for future generations, not just the next generation or two.