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    The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
    The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
    The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
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    The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge

    By Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing

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    This highly acclaimed atlas distills the vast science of climate change, providing a reliable and insightful guide to this rapidly growing field. Since the 2006 publication of the first edition, climate change has climbed even higher up the global agenda. This new edition reflects the latest developments in research and the impact of climate change, and in current efforts to mitigate and adapt to changes in the world’s weather.

    The atlas covers a wide range of topics, including warning signs, vulnerable populations, health impacts, renewable energy, emissions reduction, personal and public action. The third edition includes new or additional coverage of a number of topics, including agreements reached in Copenhagen and Cancun, ocean warming and increased acidity, the economic impact of climate change, and advantages gained by communities and business from adapting to climate change. The extensive maps and graphics have been updated with new data, making this edition once again an essential resource for everyone concerned with this pressing subject.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of California Press
    Release dateMay 4, 2016
    ISBN9780520966826
    The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge

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    • 3/5
      This book is a superficial, simplistic look at global warming. In spite of the graphics and maps, which give the book a very slick and professional look, the overall discussion is weak and incomplete. In all, it goes no further than Al Gore's movie, and maybe not as far, in discussing the evidence, the models, or the science in general. For someome just beginning to be informed, this might be a good starting place, but only if they planned to move further into their reading and not stop here. The graphics and maps are good; they make it easy to visualize the information. The textual content is weak. The solutions section is mostly just popular boilerplate, with little discussion of the weaknesses of the suggested ideas, and avoiding discussions of any of the hard changes. Like most other books of this genre, the authors present global warming as though it were a stand alone problem, able to be resolved as "the problem" rather than being one of a complicated list of issues that deal with the environment. To summarize: Good graphics, good maps, weak textual support.
    • 3/5
      This book is a superficial, simplistic look at global warming. In spite of the graphics and maps, which give the book a very slick and professional look, the overall discussion is weak and incomplete. In all, it goes no further than Al Gore's movie, and maybe not as far, in discussing the evidence, the models, or the science in general. For someome just beginning to be informed, this might be a good starting place, but only if they planned to move further into their reading and not stop here. The graphics and maps are good; they make it easy to visualize the information. The textual content is weak. The solutions section is mostly just popular boilerplate, with little discussion of the weaknesses of the suggested ideas, and avoiding discussions of any of the hard changes. Like most other books of this genre, the authors present global warming as though it were a stand alone problem, able to be resolved as "the problem" rather than being one of a complicated list of issues that deal with the environment. To summarize: Good graphics, good maps, weak textual support.

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