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The Rough Guide to Climate Change: the symptoms, the science, the solutions 3rd Edition
Author(s): Robert Henson (Author), Rough Guides (Author)
- Publisher: Rough Guides
- Publication Date: 2 May 2011
- Edition: 3rd
- Language: English
- Print length: 416 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848365799
- ISBN-13: 9781848365797
Book Description
The Rough Guide to Climate Change gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. Cutting a swathe through scientific research and political debate, this completely updated 3rd edition lays out the facts and assesses the options-global and personal-for dealing with the threat of a warming world. The guide looks at the evolution of our atmosphere over the last 4.5 billion years and what computer simulations of climate change reveal about our past, present and future. This updated edition includes scientific findings that have emerged since the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as background on recent controversies and an updated politics section that reflects post-Copenhagen developments. Discover how rising temperatures and sea levels, plus changes to extreme weather patterns, are already affecting life around the world. The Rough Guide to Climate Change unravels how governments, scientists and engineers plan to tackle the problem and includes information on what you can do to help.
Editorial Reviews
Review
If there is one book that ticks all the boxes of accessibility, authority and timeliness it is The Rough Guide to Climate Change, The Daily Telegraph
About the Author
Robert Henson is a writer and editor employed at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). The job has provided him with a bird’s-eye perch on the evolution of research on global warming and other hot topics in atmospheric science. Robert also writes for Weatherwise, Nature and Scientific American magazines.
