Publisher's Synopsis
This text is a summary of the findings of two reports: "The Greenhouse Effect, Climate Change and Ecosytems" (SCOPE 29) produced by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment; and a consensus report presented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change, based on work and discussions by more than a hundred scientists. It contains an assessment of the state of the atmosphere and a review of policy options on how to respond to the predicted environmental changes. The author has attempted to capture the messages in these two reports in a way that is accessible to the non-scientific reader.
