The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change (No-nonsense Guides) - Softcover

Godrej, Dinyar

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9781859843352: The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change (No-nonsense Guides)

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ISBN 10: 1859843352 ISBN 13: 9781859843352

Publisher: Verso Books, 2001

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The hole in the ozone layer is now the size of a continent. Ships can negotiate the North West Passage without confronting pack ice. Floods devastate Mozambique and tinder-dry forests of the American North-West go up in a blaze. Yet scientists are still divided as to whether this is a random blip or an irreversible trend. Worse, political and corporate jargon confuses the issues, sometimes with deliberate disinformation. This book charts up-to-the-minute developments, explores the extent that the human race is responsible for the catastrophes and suggests what can be done to prevent them.

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'For anyone who wants a lucid, factual, reliable guide to some of the most important issues of our time, I strongly recommend you check out the No-Nonsense Guides.' Howard Zinn, historian, playwright and social activist 'A splendid series of pocketable guides to issue politics... rigorously clear.' The Guardian, London

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Heatwaves, hurricanes, droughts, floods - recent years have seen in increase in 'record-breaking' instances of extreme weather. Caught up in this whirlwind of extremes it's no wonder that speculation about more deep-rooted climatic change is a constant of today's news.

There's a palpable anxiety that it can no longer be explained away as natural variation and human fingerprints are being detected all over the crisis. With billion-dollar natural catastrophes occurring with alarming regularity, the insurance giants are getting jittery.

The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change sifts scientific theory from scientific fact and presents the impacts on health, farming and wildlife, along with an analysis of political negotiations on the issue and potential solutions to it.

'Climate Change is a pressing problem. Books like The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change are invaluable tools to spread critical information ... Dinyar Godrej writes in an engaging style, avoiding the jargon.' Athena Ronquillo-Ballesteros, Campaigns Co-ordinator, Greenpeace Southeast Asia

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