NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump's Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change (second edition, DK Publishing, 2015). The preview includes chapters on "Taking action in the face of uncertainty," "Greenhouse gases on the rise," "How does modern warming differ from past warming trends?" "How to build a climate model," "How sensitive is the climate?" "The highway to extinction?" "Where do all those emissions come from?" "Geoengineering," "But what can I do about it?" and "The known unknowns & unknown unknowns."
The publisher writes, "Dire Predictions is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding global warming and climate change ... Updated to include the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dire Predictions dives into the information documented by the IPCC in an illustrated, visually-stunning, and undeniably powerful way." A member of NCSE's Advisory Council and a recipient of NCSE's Friend of the Planet award in 2014, Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University; Kump is Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.