Joseph Romm

Climate Change

What Everyone Needs to Know

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Newly updated with the latest in climate science from COP26 and beyond, this third edition offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding the defining issue of our time: climate change.

Produktdetails

• What Everyone Needs To Know
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Third Edition
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 137mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780197647134
• ISBN-10: 0197647138
• Artikelnr.: 63689975

Autorenporträt

Joseph Romm, PhD, is one of the country's most influential communicators on climate science and solutions. Romm is Chief Science Advisor for Years of Living Dangerously series, which won the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series. He is the founding editor of Climate Progress, which New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called "the indispensable blog." In 2009, Time named him one of its "Heroes of the Environment," calling him "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger." In 2009, Rolling Stone put Romm on its list of 100 "people who are reinventing America." Romm was acting assistant secretary of energy in 1997, where he oversaw $1 billion in low-carbon technology development and deployment. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and holds a PhD in physics from MIT.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE: Why You Need To Know About Climate Change
I. Climate Science Basics
II. Extreme Weather and Climate Change
III. Projected Climate Impacts
IV. Avoiding The Worst Impacts
V. Climate Politics and Policies
VI. The Role of Clean Energy
VII. Climate Change and You
PRIMARY SOURCES
ENDNOTES
INDEX