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This new edition of The Encyclopedia of Climate Change provides comprehensive coverage of global warming and climate change, including scientific descriptions and explanations of all factors, from carbon dioxide to sunspots, that might contribute to climate change.
Previously published as the Encyclopedia of Global Warming in 2009, this new edition, now titled the Encyclopedia of Climate Change brings the conversation up-to-date with a full update of existing material and over 100 new entries. New content includes detailed information from the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference, Greenpeace Activists, the Politics of Global Warming, Environmental Politics, Negotiations on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and The Standing March, to name a few.
This encyclopedia is designed to provide students at the high school and undergraduate levels with a convenient source of information on the fundamental science and sociopolitical issues, including the debates and controversies, surrounding climate change. The study of climate change involves not only scientists but also politicians, policy makers, businesses, government and nongovernment agencies, and the general public. A student attempting to understand both the environmental science and social issues and controversies will encounter not just scientific terms and concepts but political organizations, geographic areas, social concepts, persons, countries, organizations, and laws as well.
The essays in the set fall into one or more of the following broad categories: animals, Arctic and Antarctic, astronomy, chemistry and geochemistry, climatic events and epochs, conferences and meetings, cryology and glaciology, diseases and health effects, economics, industries and products, energy, environmentalism, conservation and ecosystems, ethics, human rights and social justice, fossil fuels, geology and geography, laws, treaties and protocols, meteorology and atmospheric sciences, nations and peoples, oceanography, organizations and agencies, physics and geophysics, plants and vegetation, pollution and waste, popular culture and society, science and technology, transportation, and water resources.
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This edition superficially updates Encyclopedia of Global Warming (CH, Jun'10, 47-5386), primarily by adding just one or two new references to the reading lists for most articles. The number of articles increased from 540 to 551 (with a dozen new articles and one entry on building decay deleted), conflicting with information from the publisher's website. Among the new entries are "Atmospheric Rivers," "Fracking," "Global Warming Hiatus," "Obama Administration Efforts on Climate Change," and "Supreme Court & Climate Change." A systematic comparison of sampled articles shows entries repeated verbatim from the original 2010 edition. Important information from the last six years is lacking, greatly diminishing the encyclopedia's value for teaching and learning. An exception is the article on Japan, which covers the 2011 earthquake and Fukushima disaster. Many other topics merit significant revision, particularly articles citing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 report as their most recent source. Conflicting statements on anthropogenic causes for climate change should have been addressed. A glaring omission is the lack of revision for the "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" and the "United Nations Climate Change Conference"; neither entry references the 2015 Paris Agreement (or climate accord)--arguably one of the most significant international agreements of the past decade. The article on fracking completely disregards the hazards of fracking-waste disposal or the true costs of extraction, transportation, and processing. The assertion that the US Environmental Protection Agency has not issued statements on the "effect of fracking on water" is misleading, as the EPA's own website shows. New photographs--many of them attributed to the editor--enhance the text but do not justify replicating a major reference work without meaningful revision of its content. The online edition mirrors the print, with the benefit of full-text keyword searching. Readers might consider instead Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History, ed. by Brian C. Black et al. (CH, May'13, 50-4769). In this reviewer's opinion, Salem Press's lapses in editorial oversight are a great disappointment. Summing Up: Optional. General readers. --Alison Scott Ricker, Oberlin College