Climate Institute Announces the Release of Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them

'This book makes it clear to all of us that, while risks of abrupt climate change are increasing, opportunities to solve the climate crisis are abundant. It's an impressive accomplishment.'

Al Gore
Former Vice President of the US
Co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize

'The multiple lines of evidence from leading researchers collected in this book show that climate change will have more serious effects than imagined even a couple years ago. Fortunately, it also points the way to accelerating our response to the growing threat posed by climate change.'

Lester R. Brown
President of Earth Policy Institute

Content

The Climate Institute's new book Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them (Earthscan 2007) promises to be a leading reference work for those seriously interested in risks of global warming and practical measures that can be taken both to adapt to and slow the apparent acceleration in the pace of climate change.

Written by a transdisciplinary group of internationally respected researchers at the Washington Summit on Climate Stabilization held September 18-21 2006, Sudden and Disruptive Change explores the significance for society of such changes and efforts already undertaken by a wide range of individuals and groups.

Selected Contributors:

President of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson.
Robert W. Corell is Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment and directs the Global Change program at The H. John Heinz III Center of Science, Economics and the Environment.
Dr. Robert Bindschadler is the Chief Scientist of NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Science Laboratory and a Senior Fellow of the Goddard Space Flight Center.
Ambassador John Ashton, UK Special Representative for Climate Change

Editors

Michael C. MacCracken is Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute in Washington DC, and is past President of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS).
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Frances Moore works with the Earth Policy Institute. She holds a B.A in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard University. She has studied the effects of climate change in the high Artic and done research on carbon cycling in the Cretaceous ocean.
John C. Topping, Jr. is founder and President of the Climate Institute, the world's first environmental organization to promote global climate balance.

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For more information please contact Magali Devic: mdevic@climate.org