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The First Edition of the Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change provided a multi-authored, academic yet non-technical resource for students and teachers to understand the importance of global warming, to appreciate the effects of human activity and greenhouse gases around the world, and to learn the history of climate change and the research enterprise examining it. This edition was well received, with notable reviews. Since its publication, the debate over the advent of global warming at least partially brought on by human enterprise has continued to ebb and flow, depending literally on the weather, politics, and media coverage of climate summits and debates. Advances in research also change the discourse as new data is collected and new scientific projects continue to explore and explain global warming and climate change. Thus, a new, Second Edition updates more than half of the original entries and adds new perspectives and content to keep students and researchers up-to-date in a field that has proven provocatively lively.

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Library Journal Review

This set, edited by Philander (geosciences, Princeton Univ.; Is the Temperature Rising?: The Uncertain Science of Global Warming), is intended to help non-scientists understand the complexities of climate change. Most of the entries are accessible to a broad range of readers, but some contain technical language. This new edition has 39 more entries than appeared in the 2008 work. Many sections on state universities and their climate programs have been dropped, including those covering the Universities of Kentucky, Delaware, and Illinois, while a number of international conferences and meetings have been added. Other new articles include "Indigenous Communities," "Fossil Fuels," "Carbon Offsets," and more. Almost half of the entries have been updated; some are only minimally altered, while others have been completely rewritten or merged with other entries. Illustrations in the new edition are in grayscale (the previous edition included a color insert) and are effective overall though lacking on subjects without strong color variations, such as clouds, tornados, and some landscapes. The main body of this work has 300 more pages of content than Steven Dutch's Encyclopedia of Global Warming, with twice as many biographies and 773 topics compared to Dutch's 535. Entries in both sets include the same basic information with minor variations in presentation, but Philander's language tends to be more challenging, and his content is more current. VERDICT A solid, comprehensive resource for high school and undergraduate students or those who want more information on climate change.-Susanne Caro, University of Montana Lib., Missoula (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

School Library Journal Review

Gr 10 Up-With 40 new articles ("Climate-Gate," "Obama Administration") and extensive revision to the rest of the content, this updated version of the 2008 edition offers students and, to use the editor's quaint term, "laymen" close looks at recent developments. The set also examines broad historical, scientific, national, geographical, political, and thematic pictures of climate change's mechanisms, effects, and controversies. Along with topical entries ranging from "Abrupt Climate Changes" to "Community-Based Adaptation," the alphabetically arranged articles include separate discussions about each country and each state in the U.S., biographies of major climatologists, and profiles of a large number of relevant academic and other organizations. The previous edition's color section has been dropped (though the online version of the work features color and multimedia enhancements), but the articles are interspersed with generous quantities of charts, tables, and black-and-white photos. Most articles close with cross-references and citations for further reading aplenty-backed up by an extensive guide to general subject resources and a comprehensive index, both in Volume 3. A high overall level of technical and mathematical detail makes this most suitable for academic environments, though advanced students can manage it. The amount of new material on such a high-demand subject gives this revision a leg up over both the first edition and older resources such as Steven I. Dutch's Encyclopedia of Global Warming (Salem, 2009), which is for the same audience as this work.--John Peters, Children's Literature Consultant, New York (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

From "Abrupt Climate Change" to "Zooplankton," this second edition (1st ed., CH, Nov'08, 46-1244) has nearly 780 signed entries by 233 scholars worldwide. The publisher notes that "over half of the entries have been thoroughly revised and updated from the first edition and at least 40 are new." All conclude with references for further reading suggestions and cross-references to related entries. The 16-page illustrated introduction of the first edition is gone; the chronology, glossary, resource guide, and index are all more detailed and complete. The appendix of graphic material with accompanying text appears unchanged, save for a brief editor's note. Sources referenced in the appendix are still not listed with a complete citation within the appendix or the resource guide. The publisher's website states that "a new appendix provides a pro/con debate on global warming, highlighting growing controversies in the field," but this appendix was not present in this reviewer's copy. The electronic version of this set, available through SAGE Knowledge, includes 50 accompanying videos, with transcripts; videos are short and lack attribution, but may engage viewers and spur them to turn to other sources for additional information. The Encyclopedia of Global Warming, edited by Steven Dutch (CH, Jun'10, 47-5386), is complementary. Both encyclopedias feature many unique entries, and entries with identical titles (e.g., "Sunspots") have varying degrees of complexity, comprehensiveness, and cited references; thus, redundancy is limited. For all academic libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students. A. S. Ricker Oberlin College

Booklist Review

The second edition of The Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change is a complete update, with 40 new articles. In addition, more than 50 percent of the content has been revised and updated in the four years since initial publication. The layout has also changed slightly, with the full-color introduction found in each volume of the original edition gone and the index now solely found at the end of volume 3. A Reader's Guide groups thematically related entries together by broad topic areas, including Atmospheric Sciences and Policies and Conventions, as well as by country. Indeed, one of the informational draws of the encyclopedia remains the entries on each country of the world (although the newest UN member, South Sudan, receives only a small paragraph within the entry on Sudan). The brief bibliographies found at the end of articles in the first edition have been expanded into fully cited reading lists, easing students locating further material. There are more than 750 entries, some with illustrations, such as black-and-white photographs and charts. The online edition, available through the Sage Reference platform, contains video clips, audio clips, and full color graphics. As in the first edition, multiple perspectives on global warming are presented. However, all are based in scientific reality and not in baseless opinion (as in some information collections found on the Internet.) Most of the articles are easy to understand and serve as an introduction to the large variety of topics related to global warming. This new edition is a useful purchase for public and academic libraries in a subject that is constantly in need of updating. Libraries owning the first edition will want to replace it with this updated version.--Stratton, Steve Copyright 2010 Booklist

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S. George Philander, Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University and Research Director of ACCESS (African Centre for Climate and Earth System Science) in Cape Town, South Africa, has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cape Town and a Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics) from Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society. Dr. Philander's research interests include the oceanic circulation, interactions between the ocean and atmosphere that result in phenomena such as El Niño and La Niña, paleoclimates (including the recurrent Ice Ages of the past three million years), and future global climate changes. His two books for laypersons, Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warmingand Our Affair With El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current Into a Global Climate Hazard, reflect his keen interest in improving communications between scientists and laymen. The goal of the African climate center, which Dr. Philander is currently directing, is to give Africa its own voice on environmental issues such as global warming.