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The first chapter describes the expected effects of climate change with one degree Celsius (1 °C) increase in average global temperature since pre-industrial times.. The second chapter describes the effects of two degrees average temperature and so forth until Chapter 6 which shows the expected effects of an increase of six Celsius degrees (6 °C) average global temperature.
The book argues humanity is facing a sustainability emergency that requires a clear break from business-as-usual politics. The authors explain that emergency action to address climate change is not so much a radical idea as an indispensable course to embark upon. [1] It draws heavily on the work of many climate scientists, including James E ...
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change is a 2005 book by Australian scientist Tim Flannery. It discusses climate change, its scientific basis and effects, and potential solutions. The book received critical acclaim.
A review in The Irish Times by John Gibbons was critical of the book's primary focus on effects of climate change on humans rather than also covering impacts on other species. [9] In The New Climate War, the climatologist Michael Mann dedicates 12 pages to comment "The Uninhabitable Earth". [10]
The lecture was called "The Economics and Politics of Climate Change. An Appeal to Reason " [ 4 ] As explained in the introduction, the aim of the book is to examine each of the dimensions of the global warming issue, including the science, the economics, both from the perspective of long-term forecasting and cost-effectiveness analysis, the ...
The book details how heat waves caused by global warming have had disastrous effects on society including the 2003 European heat wave that killed 72,000 people, including 15,000 people in Paris alone. The author explains that the city of Paris developed during a more temperate time, and as the planet warmed in the late twentieth and twenty ...
Minority neighborhoods where residents were long denied home loans have twice as many oil and gas wells as mostly white The post Study: Redlining tied to more oil, gas wells in urban areas ...
Climate change: the impact of capitalism: Naomi Klein: 2014: ISBN 978-1-45169738-4: The Chilling Stars: Climate change: cosmic rays as major contributor: Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder: 2003; 2007 (updated) ISBN 1-84046-815-7: The Climate Book: Causes, effects and possible solutions to the climate crisis: Greta Thunberg and many others: 2022 ...