Review: Climate Change: Evidence and Causes: Set of 5 Booklets

Climate Change: Evidence and Causes: Set of 5 Booklets by National Academy of Sciences
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a compact, economic overview of the recent climate science. The format is a Q&A with easy to understand summaries of science and plain graphs. Some samples:

How do scientists know that recent
climate change is largely caused by
human activities?

Scientists know that recent climate change is largely caused by human activities from an
understanding of basic physics, comparing observations with models, and fingerprinting
the detailed patterns of climate change caused by different human and natural influences.

and

If the world is warming, why are some
winters and summers still very cold?

Global warming is a long-term trend, but that does not mean that every year will be
warmer than the previous one. Day to day and year to year changes in weather patterns
will continue to produce some unusually cold days and nights, and winters and summers,
even as the climate warms.

There is so much out there to read and consider from the scientific community on this front. This is a real nice digest version with only like a couple of dozen of actual pages to read.

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