Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
are not accepted by all scientists studying the
situation, but there is enough evidence to suggest
that a major global climate change is in progress.
The ultimate magnitude of the change is
uncertain, but it has the potential to cause large-
scale alterations to the natural environment and
to global socio-economic and political systems.
For these reasons, the search for a better
understanding of the situation is being given
priority, both nationally and internationally.
There has always been a high degree of
cooperation among the world's environmental
scientists, but it seems likely that such
cooperation will have to extend to other physical
scientists, social scientists and decision-makers,
if society is to be in the best possible position to
cope with what could well be the greatest global
temperature rise in history.
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
Flavin, C. (1989)
Slowing Global Warming: A
Worldwide Strategy,
(Worldwatch Paper 91)
Washington DC: Worldwatch Institute.
Houghton, J.T., Jenkins, G.J. and Ephraums, J.J.
(1990)
Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific
Assessment,
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Houghton, J.T., Callender, B.A. and Varney, S.K.
(1992)
Climate Change 1992: The
Supplementary
Report to the IPCC Scientific
Assessment,
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Rosen, L. and Glasser, R. (1992)
Climate Change
and
Energy Policy,
New York: American
Institute of Physics.
