Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Wagner, Gernot
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Date:	04/19/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The authors explore "the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth's atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors look at how [the] economic forces that make sensible climate policies difficult to enact make radical would-be fixes like geoengineering all the more probable"--Amazon.com.