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Article: CLIMATE CHANGE: CAUSES, EFFECTS, AND SOLUTIONS
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- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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CLIMATE CHANGE: CAUSES, EFFECTS, AND SOLUTIONS John T. Hardy, 2003, 260 pp., $45.00, paperbound, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 0-470-85019-1
It would be hard to argue that any other scientific issue has captured the attention of the United States public more than climate change over the past decade. Reports on global warming, El Niño, and an increase in severe weather frequently pop up in electronic and print media; movies and television miniseries depict fictional climatically-driven apocalypses; and the Kyoto Protocol and related policy issues have been included in presidential debates. In short, the level at which climate change has permeated and persisted in the public conscience indicates ...