The ABCs of Global Warming: What Everyone Should Know About the Science, the Dangers, and the Solutions
Charles Siegel
The ABCs of Global Warming: What Everyone Should Know About the Science, the Dangers, and the Solutions
Charles Siegel
The most concise, most readable, and most complete book about the climate emergencyThis book is the quickest, easiest way to learn everything you need to know about global warming. Using easy-to-understand language without jargon, it explains:
The Science: The greenhouse gases and how they set the Earth’s temperature, warming because of human-caused emissions, natural processes that amplify human-caused warming, what we must to limit warming.
The Dangers: Heatwaves, flooding, drought, wildfires, rising sea levels, acid oceans, extinctions, poverty, irreversible tipping points that can worsen warming.
The Solutions: A fee on emissions with revenue returned to citizens, sectors than can easily transition to clean alternatives (such as electricity and ground transportation) and that need technological innovations to transition (such as cement), multiple emissions offsets to speed the shift to net-zero emissions, the path to a stable climate.
If you are just beginning to learn the facts about global warming, or if you have already learned about global warming and want more complete knowledge, or if you if you are looking the perfect gift for the global-warming-denier in your life, this is the book for you.
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