In this book Donald Rapp provides a balanced assessment of global warming, tending neither to the views of alarmists or nay-sayers. Rapp has the ability to move into a highly technical field, assimilate the content, organize the knowledge base and succinctly describe the field, its content, its unresolved issues and achievements. This is precisely what he does in this book in relation to global climate change. As such his approach is refreshingly different.

Historical variations in the Earths climate.- Temperatures in the past millennium.- Temperatures in the past century.- Variability of the Sun.- The Earths heat balance and the greenhouse effect.- CO2 production and climate change.- Impacts of global warming.- Global climate change and public policy.- Final remarks.