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    The Climate Solutions Consensus: What We Know and What To Do About It

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    In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (with former Vice PresidAl Gore) for its reporting on the human causes of climate change. In 2008, the National Council for Science and the Environmreported that the acceleration of climate change is already faster than the IPCC projected only a year earlier. How we deal with the rapid environmental changes, and the human forces that are driving these changes, will be among the defining issues of our generation.
    Climate Solutions Consensuspresents an agenda for America. It is the first major consensus statemby the nation’s leading scientists, and it provides specific recommendations for federal policies, for state and local governments, for businesses, and for colleges and universities that are preparing future generations who will be dealing with a radically changed climate. The book draws upon the recommendations developed by more than 1200 experts who participated in the National Council for Science and the Environment’s 8th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment.
    After clearly presenting the science behind climate change and its solutions, Climate Solutions Consensuspresents practical, results-oriented approaches for minimizing climate change and its impacts. It clearly spells out options for technological, societal, and policy actions. And it deals head-on with controversial topics, including nuclear energy, ocean fertilization and atmospheric geo-engineering.
    One of the book’s key conclusions is that climate solutions are about much more than energy sources. They involve reexamining everything people do with an eye toward minimizing climate impacts. According to these scientists, the time to act is now. With clarity and urgency, they tell us exactly what needs to be done to start reversing the driving factors behind climate change, minimizing their consequences, and adapting to what is beyond our power to stop.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateJun 22, 2012
    ISBN9781610911283
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