Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
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Product Description
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been issuing the essential facts and figures on climate change for nearly two decades. But the hundreds of pages of scientific evidence quoted for accuracy by the media and scientists alike, remain inscrutable to the general public who may still question the validity of climate change.
Esteemed climate scientists Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump, have partnered with DK Publishing to present Dire Predictions-an important book in this time of global need. Dire Predictions presents the information documented by the IPCC in an illustrated, visually-stunning, and undeniably powerful way to the lay reader. The scientific findings that provide validity to the implications of climate change are presented in clear-cut graphic elements, striking images, and understandable analogies.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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Game, Set, Match
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This book could easily be titled, "A Guide to Help Climate Skeptics Understand Why They are Wrong." It's written, not in a dull, didactic, "here are the facts," manner, but more as a presentation of the arguments in which the standard questions from the other side are addressed as major section headings, such as, "Couldn't the increase in carbon dioxide be the result of natural cycles?."
Pretty much the bottom line conclusion of the book is presented in large, bold font near the end of first section where the authors say that if we don't do something to change our ways, the atmospheric carbon dioxide level will exceed "anything experienced on earth for over 50 million years." Could the stakes be laid out any more clearly?
The tables need to be turned on the climate skeptics -- it's time for the burden of proof to be placed upon their shoulders -- as in, you folks need to prove to us that it's possible to alter the atmosphere so significantly and NOT have something undesirable happen.
The structure of the book is very simple and powerful. In five nicely color-coded sections they lay out the basics of the problem, what the science predicts will happen, and how to avoid or cope with it. The style of writing is efficient, direct, to the point, and periodically snappy, such as asking, "Is it time to sell that beach house?"
The overall look of the book is almost as VISUAL as a slide show. This is a book that is perfect for undergraduates, the general public, and pretty much everyone willing to put their trust in science rather than politics.
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Incomplete Work...
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This book is a scantily clad picture of our earth and what may or may not be happening to it. Instead of at least paying a minimal tribute to its opponents (currently 31,000+ scientists strong) it delves into global warming as if it were a truth akin to the most fundamentalist of bible, islam, or torah theorists. It fails to mention what some of the opponents of global warming addresses....namely the cooling of our climate, the expanding of our artic ice caps, and the cooling temperatures of our world at its core, which is a much more definitive measurement than that of the crust or air above the crust.
This book is one-sided, unscientific, and no better than blatant dogma. I guess in the days of climate change scares, dogma is merely short for dog-manure.
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Excellent science primer
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Dire Predictions offers an excellent primer on climate change science and potential means for reducing emissions. The authors address the basics of climate science with informative text and graphs that are simple, intuitive and straight-forward. This is a great book to pass on friends and relatives who would benefit from information about climate science from scientists.
I work with climate scientists and it is often difficult to translate climate science to the public. The authors of Dire Predictions have made an excellent go at it.
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Great IPCC Summary for General Public
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The IPCC documents are quite heavy for the non-scientist who wishes to learn about the current state of climate change science. This book provides the reader with the most important information of these IPCC documents in an easy-to-read, highly illustrated format. Well done!
Scott A. Mandia, Professor - Physical Sciences
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Well done and informative
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Covers the whole gamut concerning global warming etc. These author's know their subject matter and we as lay people of this planet should take their message very seriously. Our day's on this planet could be construed as how many days left do we have before it all comes to a head.
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