Climate Change

a Very Short Introduction

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Mark Maslin: Climate Change (2014, Oxford University Press)

200 pages

English language

Published June 19, 2014 by Oxford University Press.

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978-0-19-871904-5
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A brief introduction to climate change.

3 stars

An interesting introduction to climate change: what it is, why is it happening, what are its effects and what could we do about it. Worth a read to get an overview of the science, politics and economics of climate change.

Chapter 1 looks at the history of climate change: the greenhouse effect, how we know how the climate was in the past and what are the current sources of greenhouse gases.

Chapter 2 looks at the debate around the science of climate change: the history of research into climate change, the mistakes made at the early stage of the science that lead to the conclusion that we were entering a cooling climate stage, the role of the media in reporting climate change and the growing sense that we were causing the current changes in climate.

Chapter 3 looks at the evidence for climate change: from temperature, precipitation and sea level …

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This book gives a rock-solid scientific overview of climate change: its causes and effects, the scientific techniques used to characterize and model it, and policy alternatives and their political obstacles and ramifications. Maslin uses broad strokes to lay out the story, but isn't afraid to get into the necessary scientific detail when it's needed to make these ideas clear to the layman.

But I'm hesitant to recommend this book to any skeptics or interested laymen, for one simple reason: this book contains the worst academic copy editing (perhaps a complete lack thereof) that I have ever seen. Misspellings, run-ons and fragments, malapropisms, and dangling participles are rampant. Some sentences are so tortured that they seem to be saying the exact opposite of what Maslin's trying to express. Almost every page in the first half has grammatical errors -- the second half is a little better. This would be almost understandable …

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