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Article: Global Warming: the science of climate change. (Reviews).
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- The Geographical Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Global Warming: the science of climate change. By FRANCES DRAKE
London: Arnold, 2000, 273 PP. [pounds sterling]14.99 (pbk) ISBN 0 340 65302 7
The science of climate change is a highly contentious and politicized field that benefits from open discussion and debate. Most of the available literature on the subject, however, is either highly technical and virtually inaccessible to the non scientifically trained student or is promulgated in popular non academic magazines and newspaper reports. Frances Drake's new book manages to bridge this information gap by providing for the non science student a well balanced, closely researched and highly readable ...