The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change: The Science, the Solutions, the Way Forward

by Danny Chivers

Overview

Just as the need for action on climate change becomes more urgent and overwhelming, the campaign to deny that humans are causing it has gained more traction. This completely new book meets the skeptics head on, offering a guide to the science, an insight into the politics of climate justice, and a clear sense of the way forward.

Danny Chivers is a freelance carbon analyst and environmental writer. He recently created an online carbon calculator encapsulating all of the United Kingdom's emissions for the Guardian, and is working on one that will do the same for the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780260280
Publisher:	New Internationalist
Publication date:	03/22/2011
Series:	No-Nonsense Guides
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Danny Chivers is a freelance carbon analyst and environmental writer. He recently created for The Guardian newspaper an online carbon calculator encapsulating all of the UK’s emissions – and is working on one that will do the same for the US. He is also a prominent performance poet.

Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword by Nicola Bullardoo
Introduction

Part A: The Science
1 How do we know that climate change is happening?
2 How bad could it get?
3 Why is climate denial on the rise?

Part B: The Solutions
4 Where are all the emissions coming from?
5 How much do we need to cut?
6 What are the solutions?

Part C: The Way Forward
7 What is the political history of climate change?
8 Why haven’t we fixed it yet?
9 What is it going to take?
10 What might a zero-carbon future look like?
11 Ten top tips to save the climate

Bibliography and Useful Contacts
Index