摘要: Going beyond the headlines, this work by leading NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and master photographer Joshua Wolfe illustrates as never before ramifications of shifting climate. Photographic spreads show retreating glaciers, sinking villages in Alaska's tundra, drying lakes. The text follows adventurous scientists through ice caps at poles to coral reefs tropical seas. Marshaling data spanning centuries continents, book sparkles with cutting-edge research visual records, including contributions from experts on atmospheric science, oceanography, paleoclimatology, technology, politics, polar regions. As Jeffrey D. Sachs writes his powerful foreword, "Climate Change is a tour de force public education."