Mark Maslin (2014) "Climate Change": table of contents

• Mark Maslin, (2004, 2009) 2014: Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction (Third Edition) (A Very Short Introduction). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-871904-5 (ebook ISBN 978-0-19-102912-7).
• Publisher's web page about this book [OUP global] [OUP Japan]
• (The title of the 1st and 2nd editions were Global Warming.)
• {Author's web site at University College London] https://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/people/academic-staff/mark-maslin

List of chapters

• 1. What is climate change?
• 2. The climate change debate
• 3. Evidence for climate change
• 4. Modelling future climate
• 5. Climate change impacts
• 6. Climate surprises
• 7. Politics of climate change
• 8. Solutions
• 9. Envisioning the future

(Detailed) table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface to the third edition
• Abbreviations
• List of illustrations
• List of tables
• List of boxes
• 1. What is climate change?
  • The Earth's natural greenhouse
  • Past climate
  • Past variations in carbon dioxide
  • Early farmers
  • The industrial revolution
  • Who produces the pollution?
  • [Box 1] What is the IPCC?
  • Summary
• 2. The climate change debate
  • Historical background
  • Cold War science
  • Why the delay in recognizing climate change?
  • The rise of the enviromental social movement
  • Climate change and the media
  • The economists wade in
  • Climategate
  • Summary
• 3. Evidence for climate change
  • Weight of evidence
  • Recent climate change
  • Temperature
  • Precipitation
  • Relative global sea level
  • Other evidence for global warming
  • What do the sceptics say?
  • Summary
• 4. Modelling future climate
  • Models
  • Carbon cycle
  • Warming and cooling effects
  • Emission models of the future
  • Modelling uncertainty
  • Future global temperatures and sea level
  • Modelling extreme events
  • What the sceptics say
  • Summary
• 5. Climate change impacts
  • What is dangerous climate change?
  • Extreme events and society's coping range
  • Coasts
  • Storms and floods
  • Heat waves and droughts
  • Human health
  • Biodiversity
  • [Box 2] El Niño - Southern Oscillation
  • Agriculture
  • Ocean acidification
  • Summary
• 6. Climate surprises
  • Thresholds and tipping points
  • Melting icesheets
  • Deep-ocean circulation
  • Gas hydrates
  • Amazon dieback
  • Summary
• 7. Politics of climate change
  • Introduction
  • UNFCCC
  • Kyoto
  • [Box 3] UNFCCC negotiating alliances
  • Copenhagen
  • Post-Copenhagen
  • Is the UNFCCC process flawed?
  • A unilateral approach
  • Carbon trading
  • REDD+
  • Summary
• 8. Solutions
  • Introduction
  • Adaptation
  • Mitigation
  • Alternative, renewable, or clean energy
  • Carbon capture and storage
  • Transport
  • Carbon trading and offsetting
  • Subsidies
  • Geoengineering or technofixes
  • Geoengineering governance
  • Summary
• 9. Envisioning the future
  • Introduction
  • Planetary limits
  • Perfect storm
  • Neoliberal myth
  • Taking action
  • Win-win solutions
  • Conclusions
• Further reading
• Index