Hot topic
Subtitle: global warming and the future of New Zealand
By: Gareth Renowden
Publisher: AUT Media
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780958282901
Subjects: Global warming; Climatic changes
Description: "What does a warming world mean for New Zealand? Will we fry and starve, or bask and thrive? Using the latest evidence from the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report, Gareth Renowden puts climate change into its New Zealand context. He examines how the science suggests New Zealand's climate will change, what current and future governments can do to address the problem, and how individuals and businesses can respond to the challenge. Hot Topic explains the science of global warming in a clear and easily understandable way."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Living in a greenhouse -- -- 2.; title: The climate system -- -- 3.; title: The state of science -- -- 4.; title: The outlook for New Zealand -- -- 5.; title: Impacts: the good and the bad -- -- 6.; title: Sinking and burning: our Pacific neighbours -- -- 7.; title: Warming in the wider world -- -- 8.; title: Facing up to the inevitable -- -- 9.; title: Cooling the future -- -- 10.; title: A low-carbon New Zealand -- -- 11.; title: The big picture -- -- 12.; title: The way forward -- -- Appendix:; title: The sceptical view.