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Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction
Third Edition
Mark Maslin
Very Short Introductions
- Fully updated for 2014 to include the latest scientific findings on climate change
- Makes sense of how and why climate change is happening
- Explains why it is so controversial - a combination of scientific, political, social, and environmental issues
- Looks at the debates and questions surrounding climate change
- Examines the proposed solutions and the future of our planet
- Examines the global policies on climate change as well as local solutions
- Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over six million copies sold worldwide
New to this Edition:
- Previously titled Global Warming: VSI, but now changed to Climate Change: VSI to reflect developments in the terminology over the past decade
- Includes the most up to date scientific findings from the 2013 IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
- Explores the impact of the United Nations Copenhagen Climate Change conference, Rio 20+, and political developments around the world
- Adds the latest science and politics of geoengineering
- Looks at the latest social science research about why people do or do not accept the science of climate change