The climate wars are not fiction. One side defends against climate risk, while the other side is dismissive, combative and comes to the table armed with many threatening weapons. This book will appeal to readers interested in learning how to engage in the debate by thinking coherently about climate. It presents lessons which were instrumental in developing an iterative risk management approach to defending against climate change. It intersperses stories of the author's experiences working within the scientific and assessment communitieswork that supported thought-organizing methods for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other decision-supporting institutions.
Gary Yohe is the Huffington Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Emeritus at Wesleyan University, USA. He served as a senior member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sharing its 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. His primary research, assessment and communication efforts have been focused on describing the economic and social risks from climate change and elaborating ways to defend against them. He has published over 175 peer-reviewed papers and more than 75 opinion and communication pieces in reputable media outlets. Yohe served as Vice-Chair of the 2014 Third National Climate Assessment in the Obama Administration and on many panels for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has testified multiple times before both houses of Congress. He is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of Climatic Change.
