Research Catalog

Title

Climate wars / Gwynne Dyer.

Author

Dyer, Gwynne

Publication

[Toronto] : Random House Canada, c2008.

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Description

xiv, 267 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that the average global temperature will rise between 2 degrees and 6.4 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. These are conservative estimates, based on a lowest-common-denominator consensus among scientists and further watered down by governments. They make no allowance for feedback phenomena and potential runaway heating. But a World Bank study in India last year suggested that even 2 degrees hotter means a 25 percent cut in Indian food production. The core problem with climate changes is not sea level rise or bio-diversity; it is food supply."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Global warming > Political aspects
• Climatic changes > Political aspects
• Global warming > Social aspects
• Climatic changes > Social aspects
• Réchauffement de la terre > Aspect politique
• Climat > Aspect politique
• Réchauffement de la terre > Aspect social
• Climat > Aspect social

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The year 2045 -- The geopolitics of climate change -- Russia, 2019 -- An inevitable crisis -- United States, 2029 -- Feedbacks: how much, how fast? -- Northern India, 2036 -- We can fix this... -- A happy tale -- ... But probably not in time -- China, 2042 -- Emergency measures -- Wipeout -- Childhood's end.

ISBN

• 9780307355836
• 0307355837

OCLC

213525729

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library