Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach
"...an excellent synthesis of current knowledge of the climate system and past and present climates. ... This book will become an oft-cited reference for climate  researchers and students, and should be essential reading for politicians and managers involved in issues of climate change. ...presents the basics surrounding climate change in a simple way while pointing out the complexity of climate-data collection, processing, and interpretation. Burroughs must be congratulated on this achievement. This new edition gives readers an up-to-date and appealing reference that provides a scholarly foundation for improving our understanding of climate change and its future economic and political implications." - Raphael Wust, OceanographyPraise of the First Edition:    "The book is best appreciated by those with an understanding of science, particularly earth sciences, and will be of interest to many following the climate change discussions."    American Meteorological Society, October 2001"Burroughs is to be congratulated for having written a serious and up-to-date book that competently surveys many highly technical aspects of modern climate science but manages to do so in a nonmathematical manner."    American Meteorlogical Society, June 2002