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Extracts from the Introduction to book

Climate change is a worldwide, environmental, social and economical challenge. It touches on aspects of air pollution, land use, toxic waste, transportation, industry, energy, government policies, development strategies and individual freedoms and responsibilities. Human use of the atmosphere as an unpriced dumping space has led to the build up of gases and particles that can alter the radiant energy exchange between earth’s surface and space……

Th topics raised in this volume often trancend temporary political regimes. The first such topic is that global climate change is indeed global.