Fülszöveg
ANNIKA NILSSON
Climate change has become one of the major
issues on the international environmental
agenda. Predictions of a rising sea and
devastating droughts have alerted politicians
worldwide to the risks of continued increases
in the emission of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases.
But to change the direction of development is
not an easy process. A myriad of political
decisions has to be made on a national as
well as international level. Those decisions
need to be based on facts. The questions are:
How big a problem is climate change really?
How much do the scientists know about what
is in store?
Since the greenhouse effect and global
warming were first brought up on the
international agenda of environmental
problems, many efforts have been made to
evaluate critically the scientific base for any
predictions about climate change. This book
is an attempt to capture the messages in
those reports to give the non-scientific reader
a picture of the...
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Fülszöveg
ANNIKA NILSSON
Climate change has become one of the major
issues on the international environmental
agenda. Predictions of a rising sea and
devastating droughts have alerted politicians
worldwide to the risks of continued increases
in the emission of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases.
But to change the direction of development is
not an easy process. A myriad of political
decisions has to be made on a national as
well as international level. Those decisions
need to be based on facts. The questions are:
How big a problem is climate change really?
How much do the scientists know about what
is in store?
Since the greenhouse effect and global
warming were first brought up on the
international agenda of environmental
problems, many efforts have been made to
evaluate critically the scientific base for any
predictions about climate change. This book
is an attempt to capture the messages in
those reports to give the non-scientific reader
a picture of the different factors that scientists
consider in their scenarios of the future. The
decisions called for in a global climate
convention have to be made by policy
makers worldwide, but the basis for those
decisions is the picture painted by scientists.
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