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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.
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Confronting Climate Change is a guide to the risks, dilemmas, and opportunities of the emerging political era, in which the impacts of a prospective global warming could affect all regional, public, and even individual decisions. Written by a renowned group of scientists, political analysts, and economists, all with direct experience in climate change related deliberations, Confronting Climate Change is a survey of the best available answers to three vital questions: what do we know so far about the foreseeable dangers of climate change? how reliable is our knowledge? what are the most rewarding ways to respond?
CLIMATE CHANGE Risks, Implications and Responses
CLIMATE CHANGE Risks, Impliccrtions and Responses EDITED BY
IRVING M. MINTZER ASSISTANT EDITORS
Art Kleiner and Amber Leonard PRODUCTION EDITOR
Arno Rosemarin ASSISTANT PRODUCTION EDITOR
Heli Pohjolainen
Stockholm Environment Institute
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www. Cambridge. org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521420914 © Cambridge University Press 1992 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory ex