It's available for $16.50 from Amazon.com (list price $25), and it will be released on 21 July.
Excerpts from some independent reviews are available at RealClimate.org. Unfortunately, one of the sponsored links on this page is from the Heartland Institute, sponsors of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. In case that doesn't ring a bell, here's the concluding paragraph of Andrew Revkin's article about it from the New York Times:The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been issuing the essential facts and figures on climate change for nearly two decades. But the hundreds of pages of scientific evidence quoted for accuracy by the media and scientists alike, remain inscrutable to the general public who may still question the validity of climate change.
Esteemed climate scientists Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump, have partnered with DK Publishing to present Dire Predictions-an important book in this time of global need. Dire Predictions presents the information documented by the IPCC in an illustrated, visually-stunning, and undeniably powerful way to the lay reader. The scientific findings that provide validity to the implications of climate change are presented in clear-cut graphic elements, striking images, and understandable analogies.
Readers will be able to understand the IPCC reports' key concepts such as scientific uncertainty. They will also learn how to build a climate model and use it to predict future climates. Geoforensics is presented as a way to learn from the past by piecing together clues from prior climates.
The meeting was largely framed around science, but after the luncheon, when an organizer made an announcement asking all of the scientists in the large hall to move to the front for a group picture, 19 men did so.Let's see. How many scientists participated in the IPCC report. Oh right, only 2500 or so. Seems like a consensus to me.3
con·sen·sus[kuh
-noun, plural -sus·es.
1. majority of opinion: The consensus of the group was that they should meet twice a month.
2. general agreement or concord; harmony.
1And that's saying something for someone who only had one semester of college physics.
2Copied from RealClimate.org.
3consensus. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consensus (accessed: July 11, 2008).
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