Climate wars / Gwynne Dyer.

By:

Dyer, Gwynne

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Carlton North, Vic. : Scribe Publications, 2008.Description: xiv, 256 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781921372223 (pbk.) :

DDC classification:

363.73874 22

Partial contents:

The year 2045 - - The geopolitics of climate change. - - Russia, 2019 - - An inevitable crisis - - Unites States, 2029 - - Feedbacks: hw much, how fast? - - Northern India, 2036. - - We can fix this... - - A happy tale. - - ...But probably not in time. - - China' 2042. - - Emergency measurement. - - Wipeout. - - Childhood's End.

Summary: "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that the average global temperature will rise between 2 degrees and 6.4 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. These are conservative estimates, based on a lowest-common-denominator consensus among scientists and further watered down by governments. They make no allowance for feedback phenomena and potential runaway heating. But a World Bank study in India last year suggested that even 2 degrees hotter means a 25 percent cut in Indian food production. The core problem with climate changes is not sea level rise or bio-diversity; it is food supply."--Provided by publisher.

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"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that the average global temperature will rise between 2 degrees and 6.4 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. These are conservative estimates, based on a lowest-common-denominator consensus among scientists and further watered down by governments. They make no allowance for feedback phenomena and potential runaway heating. But a World Bank study in India last year suggested that even 2 degrees hotter means a 25 percent cut in Indian food production. The core problem with climate changes is not sea level rise or bio-diversity; it is food supply."--Provided by publisher.

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