Overview of Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
DiMento, J. F. C.; Doughman, P., Eds. (2014) Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren 2nd ed.” Is the book selected for review in the current report. There are several books available about climate change, which are mostly related with giving information of what makes up the climate changes. However DiMento’s current book is quite informative in the sense, it gave lot of information about how the climate change affect the mankind and more typically the pressing concerns like how the climate change is going to impact the housing prices, unemployment rates etc are discussed in the book. Further the book also comprehends the science of the climate changes along with the principles contained in it. The most interesting part of the write-up is that the language is very lucid and employed non technical language, so that any reader can get best understanding of the content. Further there is also information about the government, business, citizens and the actions which these stakeholders can take up in controlling the climate changes is well presented in the book(DiMento et al,2014). Further the book incorporated the current state of art scientific research going on, on the subject; as well there is also detailed information about the policy initiatives which the government is taking on the climate changes. Also there is updated information about the recent major legislative actions taken up. Discussion is presented on different federal initiatives in United States as well as in other developing nations across the world. The implications of the social media in effective curbing of the Climate changes are presented in the book. While indicating the impact which climate change can have on the most vulnerable population on the global scale, a range of recommendations are provided to diverse stakeholders in the world. Paleo computer data models are employed to understand the climate change process and to draw meaningful predictions out of the study(Erickson). First three chapters of the book explains the basic information about the climate change, the scientific information about that and further there is also information about the impact of the climate change on the ecological systems and the mankind as well. written to explain why the scientists are right about the climate change and about the rise of temperature as well. review of the history of the protocols, policies and legislations made for mitigating the climate change. Some recommendations are included in the later chapters to constrain the anthropogenic climate change conditions (Abatzoglou et al., 2014).
- Overall the book is good informative resources for those who are interested to know what it makes by climate change. What is the possible impact of the same on ecology and mankind? What type of implications it can have to us etc. Further there is also detailed information about the policies and procedures being in place along with few recommendations to curb the climate change. However still the book is not very exhaustive and there are no any very interesting and innovative solutions to the problem. Though it cannot be denied that the information presented is valuable to a new reader, it is of not much use to the advanced learner on the subject. There are some computer based data analytics employed in the book to introduce the simulation of the climate change conditions and to derive predictions from them. However it is truly said in the book that the practical procedures in use for prediction of the climate change are of limited use (Gallagher, 2009).
- The author main argument is that climate change is to be averted as the ill effects of the same on the ecology (Germini) and thereby to the several perspectives of the human civilization are quite detrimental to their existence. After introducing the content scientifically and explaining the underlying principles, the author has provided with some recommendations to constrain the anthropogenic climatic changes. Though the procedures are not very exhaustive in curbing the changes, they do have reasonable implications to the climate change.
- The history of the climate change in specific aspects like increase in the planet temperature presented in the booklet. More specifically there is information about the implications of the temperature change over the mankind. Other aspects like climate change how it can impact human critical issues like employment rates fall rise in the housing prices are illustrated with good insights and illustrations of the actual scenario. Also correlations of the anthropogenic activities and the climate change implications related insights and data presented in the book. The most important point of the book is to present the causes and the effects of the climate changes. The focus is given to the global warming and the implications of the same to the global policy changes.
- Definitely the data presented in the book is in line with the conclusions prepared there in the book. It is concluded that if proper actions are taken to curb at least the anthropogenic climate change factors, definitely it will curb the change to some extent and yes it is true of course. The data presented in the book is true as it was given with several reliable evidences and factual references to the content. Further all the predications are based on Paleo data-sets. The data as well as some of the inferences drawn from the data like the social and environmental impacts of the climate change are not evenly distributed is very correct. They do vary from region to region as well from the country to country is very correct.
- The main author Di Mento JFC is a professor and authority in International law, environmental law (Klinsky, 2014), international environmental law, urban planning. He wrote several books on these topics and has good grasp on the legislations and the policies related with the environmental sciences. Author’s view point is to focus on the significance on the topic as well to provide the audience with all the necessary fundamental knowledge over the subject (O’Lear, 2015). He is qualified lawyer as well environmentalist. His main specialization is in the policy studies and legislator related studies on the subject and hence he can be considered as authority over this topic particularly in relation to the legalities and other related aspects (Pazhoohi, 2015).
- It can be said that the book is very much effective in providing the information to the general audience. For that matter, rather than for specialist audience, the book is more helpful for the general audience and hence it can be considered that the author is successful in reaching the general audience (Perch, 2011). The content preparation and the presentation of different chapters in the book are done in accordance to the needs of presenting the subject to the general audience in the proper format. The content presented is very lucid; any reader can understand the policy discussions presented in the booklet. Further the information presented in the book regarding aspects such as clean development mechanisms and green house gases their intensity and implications to the society are presented in detail in the booklet. Also the book discusses the nature of the science and the consensus on the climate change in detail. These things are presented understandable to a common reader. The recommendations provided in the book in terms of public and private partnership requirements, the need for consideration of the ways regarding how to improve the scientific findings are well presented in the booklet (Rawles, 2010). The risk zones identified in the book, like the vulnerable areas in the developing countries as well as the United States is detailed well in detail in the booklet. General audience can be deeply impacted with the recommendations and there is likely possibility that with the earned awareness they can even take active participation in pressurizing the government to enable them to take proper action (Tennant, 2008). Two things that the author said, that there is sufficient information now available to proceed with a proper action and secondly the obligation there existing to take care of the next generations is very much true.
- As such there is nothing i see not reliable or distant from the reality. The facts and the simulations drawn are all true, however I will agree with the comment, that the predictions and simulations are limited in terms of providing more meaningful predictions. However the opinions and the content presented in the book is totally realistic and the author’s view and the recommendations presented are correct. Yes though the sole intention of the book is not to well educate the reader about the science and related information on the climate change topic, to enable the reader to understand the basics of the subject, author has done enough presentation of the content in terms of the scientific backup and support to the theoretical explanation. This is definitely of use to any reader to understand the science behind the climate change. The focus on the aspects like what makes up the global warming is very clearly mentioned with proper reasoning as well as the history of first identification of that as a concern and a social problem. For example consideration to the anthropogenic factors like fossil fuel burning and implications of the same to the global climate changes is recognized in 1970s itself(Venkataraman,2008) and the progress occurring in this regard etc, provides a comprehensive information and motivation to the reader to take up appropriate actions in this regard.
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