What We Know About Climate Change (Boston Review Books)

96 pages. ex-library A renowned climatologistand political conservativeassesses current scient ific understanding of climate change and sounds a call to action.The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased gr eenhouse gases in the atmospheremost dramatically since the 1970s. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this bro ad scientific consensus.In this new edition of his authoritative book, MI T atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuela political conservativeoutlines the ba sic science of global warming and how the current consensus has emerged. He also covers two major developments that have occurred since the first edition: the m ost recent round of updated projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Clim ate Change climate simulations, and the so-called "climategate" incident that heralded the subsequent collapse of popular and political support in the United States for dealing with climate change.