At this point, climate change is so politicized that it's
difficult for the general public to sort out what scientists
really know—and don't know—about it. Penned by Kerry Emanuel, an
atmospheric sciences professor at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, this latest edition of What We Know About Climate
Change is the most comprehensive, readable, BS-free rundown on
the topic that you're likely to find. It's short enough to read
in a day, apolitical enough to appeal to both your Fox-obsessed
wingnut uncle and your dreadlocked freegan older sister in
Brooklyn, and just detailed enough to provide a reload of fresh
intellectual ammunition to help you engage others on the topic.
Climate change can be hard to debate intelligently because it's
so inextricably bound up in highly complex and technical
science—which is why it is so often glossed over by the media
and ignored altogther by politicians. And then we end up with a
picture as murky as weather predictions made months in advance.
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