Bettie's Books

bookshelves: winter-20142015, net-galley, nonfiction, e-book, environmental-issues, epic-proportions, sciences, published-2014

Description: Climate Peril portrays the radically altered world we will create in 2100 A.D. if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced and documents the rapid and unnatural climate change already taking place. The book explores all major consequences of climate change, especially its astonishing impacts on the economy, human health,other species, and the oceans. Among other awesome risks, Climate Peril describes the billions of tons of carbon lurking in ocean sea beds and thawing permafrost and the global danger of crossing a threshold beyond which catastrophic climate changes become inevitable.



Opening: WHERE WE ARE HEADING ONCE AND FOR ALL: Prepare yourself for some bad news. I promise I'll try to make it brief. I'm going to take you on a whirlwind tour to see what our world will be like in less than 90 years, if present climate abuse continues and greehouse gas emission thus continue their current growth.



I have a fair amount of climate change items on my desk at the present, however they tend to be of specific subjects. This is a great overview, putting many angles into perspective, and the future really does look a scary place even if we do manage to keep under that two degree cap.

Incase you are wondering about the opening's extravagant rhetoric, 'Climate Peril' does calm down and become informative rather than distracting, however the stastics, economics and region focus is US-centric so of little use elsewhere

At present, I am on a fracking course with Nottingham University, a subject that is completely new to me, and would have liked more information within this book on the methane and seismic problems that lays down that route. Another opinion is always welcome.

I can heartily recommend this book to Americans as a general aid to understanding what the US is up against but look elsewhere if it is another region of the world or specifics subjects you are after.