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 2nd 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 new information from the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and an updated politics section to reflect post-Kyoto developments. Discover how rising temperatures and sea levels, plus changes to extreme weather patterns, are already affecting life around the world. The guide unravels how governments, scientists and engineers plan to tackle the problem and includes in-depth information and lifestyle tips about what you can do to help.
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A wonderfully accessible and instructive book in the `Rough Guide' series. -- The Sunday Telegraph, 18 February, 2007
Concise, lucid and well-researched.
-- The Ecologist, March 2008
Concise, lucid and well-researched.
-- The Ecologist, March 2008
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Bob Henson works at the internationally recognised National Center for Atmospheric Research. Henson's previous books include the well-received Rough Guide to Weather.
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By Glaucon
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This book presents a comprehensive review of the science, the social and environmental issues and the debates surrounding climate change, as well as reviewing various proposed ways of addressing the issues. The book is very accessible and well structured. It also deals with the common sceptical arguments thoroughly. The media tend to deal with issues such as climate change by presenting the case for and the case against as though they had equal backing, even where this is clearly not the case. This book provides a thorough review of the overwhelming scientific concensus that climate change is happening and of its causes. It leaves you with little doubt that the planet is warming and that this is caused by human activities. My only criticism would be that, after having clearly set out the enormity of the challenge facing humanity, the chapter about what we could do personally felt a little flimsy and left me feeling that global action is highly unlikely to be swift and far-reaching enough to address the problem.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Emily - London
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This book was my big summer read and I'm a great fan of it. Particularly good if you want to know the state of the science on climate change (second edition published January 2008), whether it's studies on why air travel is so damaging, to the massive upwards uncertainties about how fast the Arctic is melting and how high sea levels could rise. I work on some aspects of climate change but needed a much broader overview - this book has given it to me in an accessible way. The tone is balanced rather than polemical and packed full of information. The visuals and the writing style are great and break it down into bite-sized chunks. It shows you how big the challenge is, and it also takes you clearly through the steps that governments and economies will need to make, and the climate reasons why the timetable is tough. The steps on individual action are not really the focus of this book but are very practical.
By theyoguethn
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I bought this book as i have just finished my a levels and am interested in studying a related subject at uni. The book is small enough to carry round in your bag and really interesting, it is split into approachable sections and has good font size with the right amount of pictures. It provides a level of info that anyone could read but covers much more than the basics. The narritive is easy to read and various case studies put the science into great context. I would definately recommend it. Though it appears quite a small book i have spent many hours reading it and am only about halfway through, it is definately great value for money giving you a detailed overview of the different aspects of climate change whilst also providing other sources such as book titles that you could explore if you wanted more detail on a subject.
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The book is a "must" for everyone who want to know more about climate change (reasons and consequences). You can find plenty of useful facts. Author used the latest scientific results and described latest developments in this field (pro, contra, lobbyist groups). At the same time style used is easy to read and understand.
By Lester Day
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This book is packed full of information on the topic of climate change.
It leads one gently from the basics to a more in-depth coverage of the subject.
Yet, Robert Henson holds ones interest throughout his intriguing work.
It leads one gently from the basics to a more in-depth coverage of the subject.
Yet, Robert Henson holds ones interest throughout his intriguing work.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Dam135
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I'm a big fan of the Rough Guide reference series and already own a fair few (which are great), but this one stands out amounts them.
Robert Henson has done fantastic job, he covers almost all of the issues related to climate change from science to politics and unlike the name suggest it is hardly a rough guide and goes into quite a lot of detail.
If you are interested in CC I strongly recommend this book. The Rough Guide to the Energy Crisis is a good follow up/complementary read. I'm off to buy the Rough Guide to Weather.
Robert Henson has done fantastic job, he covers almost all of the issues related to climate change from science to politics and unlike the name suggest it is hardly a rough guide and goes into quite a lot of detail.
If you are interested in CC I strongly recommend this book. The Rough Guide to the Energy Crisis is a good follow up/complementary read. I'm off to buy the Rough Guide to Weather.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The title of this book is misleading: it should read Global Warming, because this is what the author promotes in an unambiguous fashion. He says it is the biggest issue facing Mankind, but I think there are many more pressing problems (poverty, inequality, economic depression, war and terrorism, for example). He follows the dubious advice of the various IPCC reports, but is honest enough to admit their well-known failings. Most serious of all, it is the computer models of world climate which have been criticized for their inbuilt bias and neglect of the very large effects of water vapour and aerosols (or clouds). It is these models which are at the very heart of the poor science used by Henson and the IPCC and others to justify absurd and regressive carbon taxes which will affect energy prices if they are allowed to proceed unchecked. The same or similar computer models are used for weather forecasting and we all know how unreliable they can be. Moreover, misuse of computer models lie at the heart of the ongoing financial crisis for their abuse in derivatives trading and elsewhere in the economy. The Chinese revolution is based on cheap coal, and the warmists allege that C02 is the culprit in warming the planet. The theory is quite unproven and based on a string of unverified assumptions, such as the alleged long residence time of about 100 years of the gas in the atmosphere, and the rates of production of the gas from natural and artificial sources. Other climatologists (Carter for example) argue a much shorter residence time, as one might expect since the gas is very water soluble and washed from the air very quickly. It is a greenhouse gas but much less important than water vapour, as any infra-red spectrum of air shows.... Read more ›
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