What we know about climate change / Kerry Emanuel ; foreword by Bob Inglis.

• Preface -- The myth of natural stability -- Greenhouse physics -- Why the climate problem is difficult -- Determining humanity's influence -- The consequences -- Communicating climate science -- Our options -- The politics surrounding global climate change.

• In this updated edition of his authoritative book, 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 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 downplaying the dangers of global warming (and, in search of "balance" quoting extremists who deny its existence). 

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Climatic changes.  (LCSH)

Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.  (LCSH)

Global warming.  (LCSH)

Climatic changes.  (fast)

Global warming.  (fast)

Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.  (fast)

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