Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming (Rapid Reads)

Weaver, Andrew

ISBN 10: 1554698049 / ISBN 13: 9781554698042

Published by Rapid Reads, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming (Rapid Reads)
• Publisher: Rapid Reads
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554698049
• ISBN 13: 9781554698042
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Global warming is not so much an environmental problem as an economic and social problem.

About the Author

Dr. Andrew J. Weaver is a MLA in Oak Bay-Gordon Head, and a professor and Canada Research Chair in climate modeling and analysis in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria. He was a lead author in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, the Chief Editor of the Journal of Climate from 2005-2009, and has authored or coauthored over 190 peer-reviewed papers in climate, meteorology, oceanography, earth science, policy, education and anthropology journals. In 2008 he was also appointed to the Order of British Columbia. Andrew is the author of Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World (2008).