The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge (Third Edition)

摘要

Climate change is a "wicked environmental problem" that "touches everything, and everyone." This compact overview by two geographers associated with the IPCC is arguably the best recent introduction to this long-term mega-problem. First published in 2005, the new edition notes "substantial changes surrounding the understanding and treatment of climate change." Although uncertainty remains, "it is [now] absolutely clear that forestalling action on that basis is to invite other problems and losses." Climate warming is "unequivocal," and very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs), which require deep cuts of 60%-80% to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2°C beyond preindustrial levels.