Confronting Climate Change Risks, Implications and Responses [Paperback]

This book takes a firm grip on the question of climate change, sets it in perspective and makes positive recommendations for the way ahead for the world community.Scheduled for publication in time for the Earth Summit Meeting in Brazil, June 1992, this work summarizes the scientific findings of Working Group I of the IPCC in its first part and challenges and expands upon existing views of climatic change in the subsequent chapters.Scheduled for publication in time for the Earth Summit Meeting in Brazil, June 1992, this work summarizes the scientific findings of Working Group I of the IPCC in its first part and challenges and expands upon existing views of climatic change in the subsequent chapters.This book, which was published in time for the Earth Summit in Brazil in June 1992, is likely to make a huge impact on the political and economic agendas of international policy makers. It summarizes the scientific findings of Working Group I of the IPCC in the first part of the book. While acknowledging the uncertainties in subsequent chapters, it challenges and expands upon the existing views on how we should tackle the problems of climate change.1. Living in a warming world; Part I. The Science of Climate Change: 2. Linkages between global warming, ozone depletion, acid deposition, and other aspects of global environmental change; 3. Climate sensitivity, climate feedbacks and policy implications; 4. Lessons from the ice cores: rapid climate changes during the last 160,000 years; 5. Changes in climates of the past: lessons for the future; 6. Indices and indicators of climate change: issues of detection, validation and climate sensitivity; Part II. Impacts of Climate Change: 7. Future sea level rise: environmental and socio-political considerations; 8. Effects of climate change on food production; 9. Effects of climate change on shared fresh water resources; 10. Effects of climate change on weather-related disasters; 11. The effect of changing climate on population; Partl,