If the importance of climate change is related to the quantity of words that have been written about it, these volumes would suggest it is easily the most significant of contemporary environmental issues. Human Choice and Climate Change runs to four volumes and 1,400 pages of text, with chapters that stretch up to 80 pages and have well over 100 references each. This ambitious project aims to present an alternative view of climate change to that provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—which, of course, has also been responsible for some weighty tomes. The questions underlying the IPCC approach may be characterized as: Is anthropogenic climate change occurring and how might it develop? What might be the impacts on ecosystems and human societies? How should human societies, and the international community, respond?
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