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Living in the Hothouse: How Global Warming Affects Australia

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In 1989 Ian Lowe published Living in the Greenhouse, one of the first books to be published in Australia on the greenhouse effect. Since then, the signs of global warming have become even more clear and more worrying to the international community, as demonstrated by the Kyoto Protocol. In Australia and around the world the impact of climate change on weather patterns is already being noticed in dramatic and frightening ways. In this new book, Professor Lowe brings… More >>

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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas, Effects of Global Warming, Parts-per Notation, Dennis Tirpak, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and … to Global Warming, Abrupt Climate Change.

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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: A Scientific Symposium on Stabilisation of Greenhouse Gases was a 2005 international conference that examined the link between atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration, and the 2 °C (3.6 °F) ceiling on global warming thought necessary to avoid the most serious effects of global warming. Previously this had generally been accepted as being 550 ppm. The conference took place under the United Kingdom’s presidency of the G8, with the… More >>

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Up in Smoke?: Threats from, and Responses to, the Impact of Global Warming on Human Development

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A report from leading environmental and development organizations, expressing concerns that global warming could threaten attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and even reverse human development achievements. Graphics, pictures, and stories from a range of agencies make a compelling case…. More >>

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