Author(s): William James Burroughs

Gardening & Environment

This guide provides a presentation of our knowledge of climate change and its implications for society. It begins by covering the physical principles of the global climate, its behaviour on all timescales, and the evidence for and consequences of past change. It then reviews how we measure climate change and the statistical methods for analyzing data, before exploring its causes and how we can model this behaviour. The final sections discuss predictions of future climate change and the economic and political debate surrounding its prevention and mitigation. This should be a useful undergraduate textbook for a wide range of courses, including meteorology, oceanography, environmental science, earth science, geography, history, agriculture and social science. It should also be of interest to a wider general audience of readers in search of a better understanding of climate change.