Climate Change: Turning Up the Heat (Paperback)

by A. Barrie Pittock (Author)

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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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.; illustrated edition edition (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 (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #955,446 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Another Disaster Book, January 21, 2009

By	G. Grantham (Fayetteville, AR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is well written. Aside from that it is hard to discern it from the ten million other books that condemn the human race for the warming trend that our planet is facing. The evidence for the thesis of this book is one sided and is filled with red herring and logical fallacies throughout the scientific data so read closely. All in all, it is a good read but don't make it the only book you read on the subject.