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What We Know About Climate Change
Kerry Emanuel
MIT Press
October 2007
On Sale: September 30, 2007
96 pages
ISBN: 0262050897
EAN: 9780262050890
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Non-Fiction
The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity
has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere—most dramatically since the 1970s. In February
2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found
that global warming is "unequivocal" and that human-produced
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are chiefly to
blame, to a certainty of more than 90 percent. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected
officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific
consensus. In What We Know About Climate Change, MIT
atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel outlines the basic
science of global warming and how the current consensus has
emerged. Although it is impossible to predict exactly when
the most dramatic effects of global warming will be felt, he
argues, we can be confident that we face real dangers. Emanuel, whose work was widely cited in media coverage of
Hurricane Katrina, warns that global warming will contribute
to an increase in the intensity and power of hurricanes and
flooding and more rapidly advancing deserts. But just as our actions have created the looming crisis, so
too might they avert it. Emanuel calls for urgent action to
reduce greenhouse gases and criticizes the media for playing
down the dangers of global warming (and, in search of
"balance," quoting extremists who deny its existence).An
afterword by environmental policy experts Judith Layzer and
William Moomaw discusses how the United States could lead
the way in the policy changes required to deal with global
warming.
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