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Climate change : turning up the heat / A. Barrie Pittock.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, c2005.Description: xii, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0643069313
  • 0643069313
  • 1844073009
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.73874 22
Contents:
Climate change matters -- Learning from the past -- Projecting the future -- Uncertainty is inevitable, but risk is certain -- What climate changes are likely? -- Impacts : why be concerned? -- Adaptation : living with climate change -- Mitigation : limiting climate change ---Climate change in context -- The politics of greenhouse -- International concern and national interests -- Accepting the challenge.
Summary: Debates about the reality of climate change and what measures to take are slowing our response. This book explains how our attitudes to risk and uncertainty influence our decision making and how much we stand to lose from rapid climate change. - BOOK COVER.
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Books Books Australian Emergency Management Library BOOK 363.73874 PIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 900177991

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 297-301.

Webliography: p. 301-308.

Climate change matters -- Learning from the past -- Projecting the future -- Uncertainty is inevitable, but risk is certain -- What climate changes are likely? -- Impacts : why be concerned? -- Adaptation : living with climate change -- Mitigation : limiting climate change ---Climate change in context -- The politics of greenhouse -- International concern and national interests -- Accepting the challenge.

Debates about the reality of climate change and what measures to take are slowing our response. This book explains how our attitudes to risk and uncertainty influence our decision making and how much we stand to lose from rapid climate change. - BOOK COVER.

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