The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change
Distributed for the American Meteorological Society
516 pages
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Illustrated in color throughout
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5 x 8
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© 2014
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Paul Higgins
Introduction
Part 1: The Basics
Global warming in a nutshell
1. Climate Change: A Primer
2. The Greenhouse Effect
3. Who’s Responsible?
Part 2: The Symptoms
What’s happening now, and what might happen in the future
4. Extreme Heat
5. Floods and Droughts
6. The Big Melt
7. Oceans
8. Hurricanes and Other Storms
9. Ecosystems and Agriculture
Part 3: Science
How we know what we know about climate change
10. Keeping Track
11. The Long View
12. Circuits of Change
Part 4: Debates and Solutions
From spats and spin to protecting the planet
13. A Heated Debate
14. The Predicament
15. Political Solutions
16. Technological Solutions
Part 5: What Can You Do?
Reducing your footprint and working for action
17. Getting Started
18. Home Energy
19. Transport and Travel
20. Shopping
21. Offsetting
Index
Paul Higgins
Introduction
Part 1: The Basics
Global warming in a nutshell
1. Climate Change: A Primer
2. The Greenhouse Effect
3. Who’s Responsible?
Part 2: The Symptoms
What’s happening now, and what might happen in the future
4. Extreme Heat
5. Floods and Droughts
6. The Big Melt
7. Oceans
8. Hurricanes and Other Storms
9. Ecosystems and Agriculture
Part 3: Science
How we know what we know about climate change
10. Keeping Track
11. The Long View
12. Circuits of Change
Part 4: Debates and Solutions
From spats and spin to protecting the planet
13. A Heated Debate
14. The Predicament
15. Political Solutions
16. Technological Solutions
Part 5: What Can You Do?
Reducing your footprint and working for action
17. Getting Started
18. Home Energy
19. Transport and Travel
20. Shopping
21. Offsetting
Index
Review Quotes
Jeff Masters | Weather Underground
"If you're bewildered by the complexity of the climate change/global warming issue, and want a comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide that presents an unbiased view of the important issues, look no further than Henson's The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change. . . . Henson is probably the world's premier science writer in meteorology and climate change."
National Center for Science Education
"Henson has written a complete and powerful climate change science book, updating and expanding upon his The Rough Guide to Climate Change."
Conservation Biology
“The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change . . . is aimed at the general public more than the specialist. In spite of this, it is still worthy reading for professionals working in ecology, meteorology, geology, or any segment of the environmental sciences. . . . It covers most of the issues related to the topic, from geophysics to soil microbiology and through phenological changes to the impact of global warming on human life and possible political as well as technological solutions. Moreover, it does all this in such a clear and logical style, simplifying the most complex processes through a series of examples and short explanations. . . . Vivid. . . . The book does not stop with understanding, it also emphasizes the responsibility everyone has to control emissions of greenhouse gases and provides actions everyday people can take to combat climate change. . . . I wish this book were on the shelves of bookstores all around the world, translated to most languages, because this would enable the huge family of interested readers to get detailed insight into the problems climate change causes and to get involved in the battle against climate change.”
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