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This is the most comprehensive and current reference resource on climate change available today. It features 49 individual chapters by some of the world's leading climate scientists. Its five sections address climate change in five dimensions: ecological impacts; policy analysis; international considerations; United States considerations; and mitigation options to reduce carbon emissions. In many ways, this volume supersedes the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Many important developments too recent to be treated by the 2007 IPCC documents are covered here. This book considers not only the IPCC report, but also results of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Bali in December 2007, as well as even more recent research data. Overall,Climate Change Science and Policypaints a direr picture of the effects of climate change than do the IPCC reports. It reveals that climate change has progressed faster than the IPCC reports anticipated and that the outlook for the future is bleaker than the IPCC reported. In his prologue, John P. Holdren writes that the widely-used term "global warming" is a misnomer. He suggests that a more accurate label would be "global climatic disruption." This volume, he states, will equip readers with all they need to know to rebut the misrepresentations being propagated by "climate-change skeptics." No one, he writes, will be a skeptic after reading this book.

Stephen H. Schneider is professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, where he is also codirector of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy.

Armin Rosencranz is the founder and former president of Pacific Environment.

Michael D. Mastrandrea is a research associate at the Stanford University Center for Environmental Science and Policy/Woods Institute for the Environment.

Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti is in the department of Political Science at the University of Michigan and is also associated with the Institute for International Studies and Biological Sciences at Stanford University.

List of Figures	p. xiii
List of Tables	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Impacts of Climate Change
Climate Change Science Overview	p. 11
Detection and Attribution	p. 28
Wild Species and Extinction	p. 44
Ecosystems	p. 56
Marine Ecosystems	p. 66
Water	p. 74
Hurricanes	p. 82
Wildfires	p. 92
Tropical Forests of Amazonia	p. 104
Global Crop Production and Food Security	p. 113
Human Health	p. 124
Unique and Valued Places	p. 131
Policy Analysis
Assessing Economic Impacts	p. 141
Integrated Assessment Modeling	p. 150
Risk, Uncertainty, and Assessing Dangerous Climate Change	p. 162
Risk Perceptions and Behavior	p. 175
What Is the Economic Cost of Climate Change?	p. 185
Cost-Efficiency and Political Feasibility	p. 194
Carbon Taxes, Trading, and Offsets	p. 204
The Cost of Reducing CO2 Emissions	p. 211
International Considerations
International Treaties	p. 221
EU Climate Policy	p. 235
Population	p. 241
Inequities and Imbalances	p. 251
Ethics, Rights, and Responsibilities	p. 262
Developing Country Perspectives	p. 270
CDM and Mitigation in Developing Countries	p. 277
Measuring the Clean Development Mechanism's Performance and Potential	p. 287
Understanding the Climate Challenge in China	p. 296
Climate Change and the New China	p. 317
India	p. 323
Australia	p. 332
United States
National Policy	p. 343
Policy in California	p. 356
California's Battle for Clean Cars	p. 364
US. State Climate Action	p. 371
Policies to Stimulate Corporate Action	p. 377
Corporate Initiatives	p. 389
Carbonundrums: The Role of the Media	p. 397
Newspaper and Television Coverage	p. 405
Media and Public Education	p. 414
Mitigation Options to Reduce Carbon Emissions
The Road Forward	p. 423
Energy Efficiency	p. 433
Renewable Energy	p. 446
Designing Energy Supply Chains Based on Hydrogen	p. 456
Nuclear Energy	p. 467
Coal Capture and Storage	p. 476
Tropical Forests	p. 484
Engineering the Planet	p. 494
Contributors	p. 503
Index	p. 507
About the Authors	p. 521
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