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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Managing the Climatology versus Where Science
Managing the
Climate Crisis Pseudoscience and Ethics Meet
Climate Crisis
Assessing Our Risk Exposing the Failed Dilemmas at the Frontiers
Assessing Our Risks, s,
Options, and Prospects Predictions of Global of Medicine and Biology
Options, and Prospects
Warming Skeptics
ROBERT O. SCHNEIDERT O. SCHNEIDER
ROBER CHRIS WILLMOTT
AND SALVADOR MACIP
DANA NUCCITELLI

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“ and informative introduction to “ It cannot be more highly
Overall, this is a clearly written

climate change and would be > AWARD WINNER recommended for all readers—
of great value to those without 2015 Outstanding Academic Title –Choice bench scientists, medical
extensive expertise on the Nuccitelli’s writing is clear professionals, and general
subject. Highly recommended. ” “ and his explanations lucid. . . . readers alike. Essential. All
readers.
—Choice, July 1, 2016 A well-written and invaluable ”
resource. —Choice, January 4, 2017
Using a risk management approach ”
to tease apart the complex issue of —National Center for Science Through engaging case studies and
climate change, this book assesses the Education, September 28, 2015 clear explanations of the underlying
key vulnerabilities and redirects the “ Essential. science, this book makes the social
discussion to present a comprehensive ” impacts and ethical consequences
plan to overhaul our response to —Choice, October 1, 2015 of recent advances in biomedicine
climate change. This book explains the science of climate understandable for general readers.
FEATURES change in plain language and shows that FEATURES
• Introduces a broader audience to the 2 to 4 percent of climate scientists • Presents a dynamic mix of present or
climate change as a crisis already who are skeptical that humans are near-future case studies (fictional),
in motion that poses predictable the main cause of global warming are scientific explanations, and
risks and urgently requires public a fringe minority—and have a well- discussions of ethics
policy changes and the creation of a established history of being wrong.
national climate policy CHRIS WILLMOTT, PhD, is a senior
lecturer in the Department of Molecular
DANA NUCCITELLI is an and Cell Biology at the University of
ROBERT O. SCHNEIDER, PhD, is environmental scientist and risk Leicester, UK.
professor of public administration assessor at a private environmental
at the University of North Carolina- consulting firm in California. SALVADOR MACIP, MD, PhD, is a
Pembroke. lecturer in the Department of Molecular
and Cell Biology at the University of
Leicester, UK.

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