Climate Peril The Intelligent Reader's Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis |
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| Author:
| Berger, John J. |
| Introduction by:
| Ehrlich, Paul R.
Ehrlich, Anne H. |
| Foreword by:
| Santer, Benjamin D. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9859092-2-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2014 |
| Publisher: | Northbrae Books
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $10.95 |
Book Description:
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The world is experiencing accelerating global climate change. The planet is at increasing risk of triggering strong amplifying positive feedback processes inherent in the climate system. Once initiated, no conceivable human action can arrest these processes, no matter how devastating the consequences become and no matter how earnestly we may wish to do so or how desperately we may try. Time is running out to protect the equable though altered climate we still have and to avoid further...
More DescriptionThe world is experiencing accelerating global climate change. The planet is at increasing risk of triggering strong amplifying positive feedback processes inherent in the climate system. Once initiated, no conceivable human action can arrest these processes, no matter how devastating the consequences become and no matter how earnestly we may wish to do so or how desperately we may try. Time is running out to protect the equable though altered climate we still have and to avoid further climate disruption.The central questions of our time are how long it will take before humanity is able torevolutionize its energy production systems to slow the pace of climate change, andwhether we can we do so before we have irrevocably committed the Earth to radicalclimate change. Such change could commit half the species on the Earth to extinction,destroy major ecosystems like the Amazon rain forest, degrade the oceans, and subjectvast areas of the Earth to drought and intolerable heat, not to mention more frequentextreme weather events.The book clearly documents the causes and consequences of rapid climate change in ashort, authoritative presentation ordinary readers can understand. It examines how andwhy the climate normally functions, and warns of the perilous economic, nationalsecurity, environmental, public health, and oceanic consequences of disturbing theclimate with heat-trapping gases.Climate Peril also identifies the main obstacles to climate protection and describesstrategies for overcoming them. The book is the second of a three-book series. Volume 1, Climate Myths, focused on the political campaign waged against climate science, andvolume 3, Climate Solutions, shows how to create a climate-safe world by radicallytransforming global energy, transportation, and land use practices.