Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World

Synopsis

At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees　Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate scientists agree that current national emissions targets collectively will still not achieve this goal. Instead, the ‘ambition gap’ between climate science and climate policy is likely to lead to average global warming of around four degrees Celsius by or before 2100. If a ‘Four Degree World’ is the de facto goal of policy, we urgently need to understand what this world might look like. Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World outlines the expected consequences of this world for Australia and its region. Its contributors include many of Australia’s most eminent and internationally recognized climate scientists, climate policy makers and policy analysts. They provide an accessible, detailed, dramatic, and disturbing examination of the likely impacts of a Four Degree World on Australia’s social, economic and ecological systems. The book offers policy makers, politicians, students, and anyone interested climate change, access to the most recent research on potential Australian impacts of global warming, and possible responses.　

Copyright:

2014

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781135937492

Related ISBNs:

9780203370476, 9780415824583, 9780415824576, 9780415824576, 9780415824583

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/27/20

Copyrighted By:

Peter Christoff

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Peter Christoff