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Climate change : what everyone needs to know / Joseph Romm.

Romm, Joseph J. (Author).

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"This book offers the most up-to-date examination of climate change's foundational science, implications for our future, and clean energy solutions that can mitigate its effects. It offers authoritative answers to the topic's most vexing questions: how will climate change impact you and your family in the coming decades? What are the future implications for owners of coastal property? Should you plan on retiring in South Florida or the U.S. Southwest or Southern Europe? Does carbon dioxide at exposure levels expected this century affect human health or cognition? What impact will climate change have on investments and the global economy?"--Page 4 of cover.

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  • ISBN: 9780190250188
  • ISBN: 0190250186
  • ISBN: 9780190250171
  • ISBN: 0190250178
  • Physical Description: xxv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Climate science basics -- Extreme weather and climate change -- Projected climate impacts -- Avoiding the worst impacts -- Climate politics and policies -- The role of clean energy -- Climate change and you.

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Subject: Climatic changes.
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Climatic changes > Economic aspects.
Human beings > Effect of climate on.
Global warming.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Climate Change : What Everyone Needs to Know®
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Climate Change : What Everyone Needs to Know®

Joseph Romm, Ph.D., is one of the country's most influential communicators on climate science and solutions. Romm is Chief Science Advisor for "Years of Living Dangerously," which won the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series. He is the founding editor of Climate Progress, which New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called "the indispensable blog." In 2009, Time named him one of its "Heroes of the Environment," calling him "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger." In 2009, Rolling Stone put Romm on its list of 100 "people who are reinventing America." Romm was acting assistant secretary of energy in 1997, where he oversaw $1 billion in low-carbon technology development and deployment. He is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT.

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