Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and the Future

Planet Earth is warming faster than at any other time in the past 1,000 years and there is little doubt that human activity is to blame.
Global warming is being caused by the massive increase in greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, put into the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuel has already elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide to their highest for the last 20 million years. The most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) leaves us with little doubt that the scientific uncertainties of global warming are essentially resolved. The IPCC report predicts that global temperatures could rise by 5.8oC and sea level by 30 inches by year 2100. Global warming will have wide-ranging and devastating effects on the natural environment, human society, and world economy.
This book explains what global warming is, presents the evidence that it is really happening, and examines the devastating effects global warming will have on human society, including drastic changes in health, agriculture, water resources, coastal regions, storminess, forests and wildlife. Moreover, the book discusses the latest developments in the global politics of global warming and what exactly was achieved at the IPCC Bonn meeting in July 2001.