Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know, Third edition
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ISBN:
9780197647134
Publication date:
22/02/2023
Paperback
352 pages
Price: 695.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780197647134
Publication date:
22/02/2023
Paperback
352 pages
Joseph Romm
The first book to render an explanation of climate change science (and its solutions) against its practical implications for readers and their families
Rights: World Rights
Joseph Romm
Description
Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know is the essential primer on what will be the defining issue of our time. Newly updated with the latest in climate science from COP26 and beyond, this third edition offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding climate change. Drawing on the author's decades of experience as one of the country's most influential communicators on climate science and solutions, this authoritative guide highlights the following topics:
· Key updates from the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow
· Insights into changes in the political landscape, such as COVID-19 and Donald Trump's presidency, and what these have meant for climate action in the United States and internationally
· Contemporary implications of the clean energy revolution, from solar and wind power to batteries and electric cars
About the author:
Joseph Romm, PhD, is one of the country's most influential communicators on climate science and solutions. Romm is Chief Science Advisor for Years of Living Dangerously series, which won the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series. He is the founding editor of Climate Progress, which New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called "the indispensable blog." In 2009, Time named him one of its "Heroes of the Environment," calling him "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger." In 2009, Rolling Stone put Romm on its list of 100 "people who are reinventing America." Romm was acting assistant secretary of energy in 1997, where he oversaw $1 billion in low-carbon technology development and deployment. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and holds a PhD in physics from MIT.
Joseph Romm
Table of contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE: Why You Need To Know About Climate Change
I. Climate Science Basics
II. Extreme Weather and Climate Change
III. Projected Climate Impacts
IV. Avoiding The Worst Impacts
V. Climate Politics and Policies
VI. The Role of Clean Energy
VII. Climate Change and You
PRIMARY SOURCES
ENDNOTES
INDEX
Joseph Romm
Description
Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know is the essential primer on what will be the defining issue of our time. Newly updated with the latest in climate science from COP26 and beyond, this third edition offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding climate change. Drawing on the author's decades of experience as one of the country's most influential communicators on climate science and solutions, this authoritative guide highlights the following topics:
· Key updates from the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow
· Insights into changes in the political landscape, such as COVID-19 and Donald Trump's presidency, and what these have meant for climate action in the United States and internationally
· Contemporary implications of the clean energy revolution, from solar and wind power to batteries and electric cars
About the author:
Joseph Romm, PhD, is one of the country's most influential communicators on climate science and solutions. Romm is Chief Science Advisor for Years of Living Dangerously series, which won the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series. He is the founding editor of Climate Progress, which New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called "the indispensable blog." In 2009, Time named him one of its "Heroes of the Environment," calling him "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger." In 2009, Rolling Stone put Romm on its list of 100 "people who are reinventing America." Romm was acting assistant secretary of energy in 1997, where he oversaw $1 billion in low-carbon technology development and deployment. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and holds a PhD in physics from MIT.
Table of contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE: Why You Need To Know About Climate Change
I. Climate Science Basics
II. Extreme Weather and Climate Change
III. Projected Climate Impacts
IV. Avoiding The Worst Impacts
V. Climate Politics and Policies
VI. The Role of Clean Energy
VII. Climate Change and You
PRIMARY SOURCES
ENDNOTES
INDEX
Rowena Robinson
Karen Valentin & Uma Pradhan
Speeding up Sport: Technology and the Indian Premier League
Vidya Subramanian
Frederique Apffel-Marglin
Holly Lawford-Smith
Family, Kinship, and Marriage in India
Patricia Uberoi
Dr Ravi Nandan Singh
Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet
Azra Razzack
