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Climate Change: Turning Up the Heat
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by A. Barrie Pittock
Sales Rank: 584417
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List Price: $35.00
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. January 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1844073009
ISBN-13: 978-1844073009
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Product Description
* Major new book explaining the science, policy, and politics of climate change and what it means for the future of humanity and planet Earth
* Presents all of the key data, provides easy-to-follow explanations, and tackles the "climate change skeptics" head-on
* Authored by one of the world’s leading climate researchers and backed by the Climate Impact Group of the prestigious Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Barrie Pittock, one of the world’s leading climate researchers, argues that we need to act urgently to avoid increasingly severe climate change. This timely book sorts fact from fiction as the author examines the arguments surrounding the reality of climate change and the divergent views of greenhouse skeptics and doom-and-gloom alarmists.
Pittock looks at the controversy around global warming and other predicted changes, especially:
· The scientific basis of the changes observed to date
· How they relate to natural variations
· Why the evidence points to larger changes later this century
Climate Change: Turning up the Heat explains how our attitudes toward risk and uncertainty – constant companions in life – influence our decision-making and, ultimately, how much we and future generations stand to lose from rapid climate change. It outlines the current concerns of the major international players and reviews the response to date, detailing national interests. Importantly, it shows there is real hope of managing climate change and minimizing the risk of disaster if we step up efforts to develop and apply innovative technological and policy solutions.
About The Author
A. Barrie Pittock is one of the world’s leading scientists in atmospheric research and the author of over 200 scientific papers. He was a senior scientist with CSIRO for over 30 years where he led the Climate Impact Group in the 1990s. In 1999 he was awarded an Australian Public Service Medal for his leadership and visionary approach to identifying, researching and communicating a range of global climate science issues.
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