Indicators of Climate Change

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.

• 1. Introduction: Changing Climate, a catastrophe in the making and its possible causes2. Global temperature rise and Climate Change3. Ocean Heat4. Rising Sea levels and Climate Change5. Arctic Sea Ice and Climate Change6. Antarctic Sea Ice and Climate Change7. Land Ice Sheets and Climate Change8. Glaciers and Climate Change9. Ocean Current Changes and Climate Change10. Ocean Acidification and Climate Change11. Permafrost changes and Climate Change12. The Jet Stream and Climate Change13. Tropical Storms and Climate Change14. Floods and Climate Change15. Wildfires and Climate Change16. Droughts and Climate Change17. Coral Reefs and Climate Change18. Bird Migration and Climate Change19. Insect behaviour changes and Climate Change20. Intertidal Changes and Climate Changes21. Plant Pathology and Climate Change22. Biological Diversity and Climate Change23. Invasive Plants and Climate Change