Hot Houses Global Climate Change and the Human Condition

About this book
A complete, easy-to-read explanation and history of global climate change
Details the politics and solutions to the problem of global warming
Presents the latest research results from a variety of disciplines
Explains the difference between weather change and climate change
Points to the accountability of the human race in global warming
Global warming is extremely complex because it deals with so many different characteristics of the Earth and their complex interactions. It is addressed by almost all sciences including many aspects of geosciences, atmospheric, the biological sciences, and even astronomy. It has recently become the concern of other diverse disciplines such as economics, agriculture, demographics and population statistics, medicine, engineering, and political science.

This book attempts to address these complex interactions, integrate them, and derive meaningful conclusions and possible solutions.

Robert Strom and Jeffrey Kargel provide a complete, easy-to-read explanation of past and present global climate change, causes and possible solutions to the problem, including the politics and reasons why this is such a politically charged issue.

Written for:
Popular Science enthusiasts and environmentalists
Keywords:
Change
Climate
Condition

Table of contents
Foreword (by David Suzuki).- Chapter 1: We've Got a Problem.- Chapter 2: A Planetary Perspective.- Chapter 3: How do we Know and Why?- Chapter 4: A Hot and Cold Past.- Chapter 5: The Heat is On.- Chapter 6: Shame on Us.- Chapter 7: The Root Cause.- Chapter 8: The Melting Earth.- Chapter 9: Water World.- Chapter 10: The Biological Fingerprint.- Chapter 11: Hold on to your Hat.- Chapter 12: How will we Survive?- Chapter 13: The Escape Hatch.- Chapter 14: The Psychology, Politics and Economics of Global Warming.- Epilogue