Confronting Climate Change: Risks, Implications and Responses

“A noteworthy and influential book….The book is a survey of the best available answers to the questions of the extent and reliability of our knowledge of the foreseeable dangers and the best responses to make in order to avert or minimize them. A must for any library with readers who are either scientifically or sociopolitically literate or who seek to understand the mechanisms of the atmosphere and the influence of human activity upon it.” A.R. Upgren Jr., Choice

“…a useful status report on such key climate change issues as the underlying scientific knowns, unknowns, and speculative judgments; the potential impacts of greenhouse warming–on hydrology and agriculture, for example; the technological opportunities and needed policy changes to facilitate more environmentally friendly energy use; and, closely related, the extent to which questions of economic efficiency, institutional change, social equity, and international negotiating strategies intrude–positively or negatively–upon achieving more reassuring climatic futures….a collection of considerable merit.” Joel Darmstadter, Environment