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Explaining climate change. A WWF overview of the new science.

Author(s) : PEARCE F.

Type of monograph: Booklet

Summary

This publication is a summary of the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It indicates that future climate change will be dominated by human influences and that humans, particularly those living in industrialised countries, need to adjust the ways they conduct activities such as travelling, producing and transporting goods, and heating buildings. Extract from the table of contents: the science of climate change (greenhouse gas concentrations are still increasing; climate has changed over the past century; the changes point towards a human influence on climate; further climate changes can be expected in future); impacts ; mitigation.

Details

  • Original title: Explaining climate change. A WWF overview of the new science.
  • Record ID : 1996-2649
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Environment, General information
  • Publication: WWF - United kingdom/United kingdom
  • Publication date: 1996/02
  • Source: Source: 24 p. (21 x 29.7); fig.; phot.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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