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List of boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Kyoto2 summary -- 1 What's the problem? -- 2 The policy response -- 3 The atmospheric commons -- 4 Applying market economics -- 5 Non-market solutions -- 6 Allocating resources -- 7 The Great Dying -- 8 Questions and answers -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Nonlinearities and Surprises in Climate Change: An Introduction and Overview -- Facts and Uncertainties of Climate Change -- Nonlinearities and Surprises in the Links of Farming to Climate or Weather -- What Are Nonlinear Responses at the Biome Level? -- The Importance of Nonlinearities in Global Warming Damage Costs -- Sorting Out Facts and Uncertainties in Economic Response to the Physical Effects of Global Climate Change -- Assessing Climate Change Risks: Valuation of Effects -- List of Contributors -- List of Workshop Participants.

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Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Setting the Scene -- 1 When Words Fail: Climate Change Activists Have Chosen a Magic Number -- 2 What Holds Us Back from the Big Shift? Time to Stop the Hand-Wringing and Start Envisioning What We Really Want -- 3 Towards a Fossil Fuel-Free Future -- 4 Communicating Complexity in the Carbon-Aware World -- Part 2: Community Opportunities -- 5 Building Better Communities -- 6 The Carbon Economy: A New Imperative for Acting Locally -- 7 Assumption Traps and a Future Vision -- 8 Transport Opportunities: Towards a Resilient City -- Part 3: Business Opportunities -- 9 The Business Case for Going Beyond Carbon -- 10 The Cleantech Opportunity -- 11 Water Industry Cleantech Solutions -- 12 Branding Beyond Carbon -- 13 Reasons to Be Cheerful -- Part 4: Investor Opportunities -- 14 The Instrumentalisation of Carbon -- 15 The Fund Manager's Perspective -- 16 Coming into View: Environmental, Social and Governance Sustainability for Institutional Investors -- 17 Riding Out along the Clean Energy Efficient Frontier -- 18 Green Investing: Towards a Clean Energy Infrastructure -- Part 5: National Opportunities -- 19 Building Australia as a Solar Nation -- 20 Building Blocks for a Clean Future -- 21 Things Aren't Always What They Seem: Jumping Hurdles to a Post-Carbon Lifestyle -- 22 The Best Crisis We Ever Had! -- 23 Pursuing Clean Energy Business in India: Overcoming Barriers, Finding Solutions -- Part 6: Global Opportunities -- 24 Protecting Today, Promising Tomorrow -- 25 Student Visions of the Opportunities Beyond Carbon -- 26 The Looming Peak Coal and Peak Phosphate Crises: Disaster or Opportunities for Innovation? -- 27 Australia's Emissions Contribution: Does It Matter? -- 28 The Way We Were: Looking Back from 2100 -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

1. The demise of the Holocene biosphere -- 2. The breach in the earth's radiation shield -- 3. The event horizon -- 4. A republic of insects and grasses -- 5. Homo prometheus -- 6. Darwinian evolution, intelligent purpose and mass extinctions of species -- Epilogue: The universal web

An updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action.The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere--most dramatically since the 1970s. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific consensus. In this updated edition of his authoritative book, MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel outlines the basic science of global warming and how the current consensus has emerged. Although it is impossible to predict exactly when the most dramatic effects of global warming will be felt, he argues, we can be confident that we face real dangers. Emanuel warns that global warming will contribute to an increase in the intensity and power of hurricanes and flooding and more rapidly advancing deserts. But just as our actions have created the looming crisis, so too might they avert it. Emanuel calls for urgent action to reduce greenhouse gases and criticizes the media for downplaying the dangers of global warming (and, in search of "balance," quoting extremists who deny its existence). This edition has been updated to include the latest climate data, a discussion of the earth's carbon cycle, the warming hiatus of the first decade of this century, the 2017 hurricanes, advanced energy options, the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, and more. It offers a new foreword by former U.S. Representative Bob Inglis (R-SC), who now works on climate action through his organization RepublicEN.