Climate Science Special Report: Volume 1

Full COLOR Print - Volume 1 of the Fourth National Climate Assessment by U.S. Global Change Research Program. Get the Kindle version FREE when you buy paperback thru Matchbook program. You could stick your head in the sand and pretend climate change is not real, but this book explains the science behind what is happening and clearly documents what should otherwise be obvious. The weather is getting worse, and the sea level will rise. Typically, whatever happens in the U.S. happens in California first. That said, we can expect wildfires in parts of the country not known for wildfires and flooding everywhere along the coasts. In our books “Sea Level Rise Maps” we show where coastal flooding will begin starting as early as the year 2030. We can expect to lose more than fancy beach houses. At least 30 major airports in cities like Boston, New York’s JFK and LaGuardia, Newark, Philadelphia, Miami, San Diego and San Francisco will all be completely underwater by the year 2100 – and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Even if we reduce our carbon footprint to zero today, the process has already begun. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don’t have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it’s the latest version (not always easy). If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it’s just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it’s 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It’s much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com Why buy an eBook when you can access data on a website for free? HYPERLINKS Anyone that has worked with large scientific documents knows how difficult it is to search to find that one bit of critical information. Yes, the book is available as a PDF file, but do you really want to search a PDF document manually? (Unfortunately, downloading the free sample file at Amazon.com does not include this feature. You have to buy a copy to get that functionality, but as inexpensive as this is, it’s worth it.) Kindle allows you to do word search and Page Flip (temporary place holder takes you back when you want to go back and check something). Load this copy onto your Kindle, PC, iPad, Android Tablet, Nook, or iPhone (download the FREE kindle App from the APP Store) and you have an easily searchable copy. We recommend the Kindle Paperwhite. It’s inexpensive, has long battery life (weeks) and can hold a lot of documents. https://usgovpub.com -