Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
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气候变化：对我们、我们的子孙意味着什么
DOI：
10.7551/mitpress/9178.003.0010
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发表时间：
2014
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影响因子：
16.2
通讯作者：
P. Doughman
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作者：
J. Dimento;P. Doughman
这个标题解释了科学对气候变化的了解，它将如何影响我们，它对不同领域的影响，以及我们可以对此做些什么。我们大多数人都熟悉气候变化和全球变暖这两个术语，但我们中没有太多人了解它们背后的科学。我们并不真正了解气候变化将如何影响我们，因此，我们可能不认为它是一个紧迫的问题，比如说，房价或当地教育质量。这本书用引人入胜的非技术性语言清晰简洁地解释了关于全球气候变化的科学知识，描述了它将如何影响我们所有人，并建议政府，企业和公民如何采取行动应对它。如果人们不太了解气候变化的严重性，部分原因是政治家和媒体歪曲了科学界对它的强烈共识-政治家通过有选择地分析主流科学家的言论，媒体通过呈现“平衡”的报道，给予少数反对者的观点与经验支持的科学发现同等的权重。这门科学是复杂的，用下沉、强迫和不确定性的技术语言表达，并引用概率、风险、范围和不确定性。政策讨论使用了一些不熟悉的术语，如无悔政策、清洁发展机制和温室气体强度。“气候变化”解释了气候和温室效应的具体细节，并描述了它们之间的相互作用。它讨论了科学共识的性质，特别是关于气候变化的共识。它描述了公共和私营部门的反应，考虑了如何改进科学发现的传播方式，并评估了脆弱的发展中国家和美国特定地区面临的真实的风险。这本书告诉我们，如果我们了解气候变化，我们可以更好地应对气候变化，我们可以用这些知识来指导我们自己的行为，并向政府和企业施压，迫使他们采取行动。
This title explains what science knows about climate change, how it will affect us, its impact on different areas, and what we can do about it.Most of us are familiar with the terms climate change and global warming, but not too many of us understand the science behind them. We don't really understand how climate change will affect us, and for that reason we might not consider it as pressing a concern as, say, housing prices or the quality of local education. This book explains the scientific knowledge about global climate change clearly and concisely in engaging, nontechnical language, describes how it will affect all of us, and suggests how government, business, and citizens can take action against it.If people don't quite understand the seriousness of climate change, it is partly because politicians and the media have misrepresented the scientific community's strong consensus on it - politicians by selectively parsing the words of mainstream scientists, and the media by presenting "balanced" accounts that give the views of a small number of contrarians equal weight with empirically supported scientific findings. The science is complex, couched in the technical language of sinks, forcing, and albedo, and invokes probabilities, risks, ranges, and uncertainties. Policy discussions use such unfamiliar terms as no regrets policy, clean development mechanism, and greenhouse-gas intensity."Climate Change" explains the nuts and bolts of climate and the greenhouse effect and describes their interaction. It discusses the nature of consensus in science, and the consensus on climate change in particular. It describes both public- and private-sector responses, considers how to improve the way scientific findings are communicated, and evaluates the real risks both to vulnerable developing countries and to particular areas of the United States. We can better tackle climate change, this book shows us, if we understand it. We can use this knowledge to guide our own behavior and pressure governments and businesses to take action.