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5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely superb explanation,
This review is from: Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming (Paperback)
I've been looking for a non-technical but comprehensive explanation of global warming and finally found it. A big thank you to the authors for producing such a superb explanation of a very complex subject in layman's terms! Complete with fabulous color graphics and technical illustrations, this book is a real page-turner that will educate any English-reading citizen of this planet about the changes that are coming.Read it to get answers to questions such as: -- How do scientists know what the weather was like in the distant past? -- How do they know CO2 is causing the warming? -- How do they know our oil and gas consumption is responsible for raising the CO2 levels? -- What will happen to our planet if we do nothing/little to stop CO2 emissions? -- Are scientists really in agreement about this? You'll get answers to these and many more questions. When the marketing experts hired by big oil try to confuse you about the facts, this book will help you sort out the truth. I unreservedly recommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
If you only read one book on climate change, this is the one!,
By Kerry Walters - Published on Amazon.com
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If you're like me, you've longed for a user-friendly book to both clarify your own thoughts about global warming and to recommend to those acquaintances, friends, relatives, and colleagues who are either indifferent to climate change or think it's a bunch of tree-hugging hooey. Believe me, Dire Predictions is the book we've been waiting for. I rarely gush in the reviews I write. But I'm gushing in this one.Authors Michael Mann and Lee Kump, the former a weather scientist and the latter a geoscientist, have put together a primer on global warming drawn from IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports that offers incredibly helpful illustrations and graphs, beautiful photographs, and informative, to the point text. The explanations are concise, typically a single topic to a page fold, and they focus on exactly the kinds of questions and issues that most of us have wondered about--for example, Is our atmosphere really warming?; How to build a climate model; Back to the future: Deep time holds clues to climate change; Fingerprints distinguish human and natural impacts on climage; Why is it called greenhouse effect? and Couldn't the increase in atmosphere CO2 be the result of natural cycles? The book is divided into 5 parts: 1. Climate Change Basics 2. Projections of Future Climate Change 3. Impacts of Climate Change 4. Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change 5. Solving Global Warming One of the best features of the Mann and Kump's approach is that they don't hesitate to respond directly to the "debunkers" of global warming that have become popular of late. A wonderful book, exactly the sort of popular science approach that citizens, community activists, public policy makers, and presidential candidates need to get clear on the facts and implications of global warming. Highly recommended. Six stars. 36 of 44 people found the following review helpful
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great concept,
By David Appell - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming (Paperback)
I love the concept behind this book: an "illustrated" guide instead of another long text of prose about global warming. It has tons of charts and graphs and colorful pictures, so you learn the field in a new way -- less abstractly, more intuitively. Slightly below a Scientific American-level. This book would be great for someone who wants to understand climate change, but doesn't have the background (or patience) to read a 300 page book on it. Plus it would be great for kids 7th grade and up.I've read hundreds of books and articles and papers on climate change, and yet I still learn things from nearly every page in the book, no matter where in it I start. 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent introductory and/or reference book,
By NukyDoky "JC" - Published on Amazon.com
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Excellent book for those interested in getting the facts and science of climate change. It is actually a summary of the 3000+ pages of the IPCC AR4 2007 reports. All the aspects are covered efficiently: physical basis, paleoclimatology, climate models, impacts, projections and GHG emission scenarios, adaptation and mitigation measures. The authors have done a wonderful job in making complex, interdisciplinary science understandable to anybody. Recommended to those wishing to have a quick guide to climate change without scientific compromise.On the aesthetics side: this book is very nicely done. Text easy to read, nice pictures, well-chosen relevant and easy-to-grasp figures and charts, everything is done so the reader enjoys reading the book. Its structure is so that each set of two pages is independent on the previous ones. That means that you can browse through the book and pick up any random page to read! Cross-references are numerous. A reference for the layman. |
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