About the Book: Plant Genetic Resources and Climate Change
There is much less scepticism today about greenhouse gas-induced climate change
and what its consequences might be, even though the full impacts of climate
change cannot yet be predicted with certainty. On the other hand, the nature of
weather variability particularly in the northern hemisphere in recent years has
left some again questioning whether our climate really is warming. But the
evidence is there for all to see, even as the sceptics refuse to accept the
empirical data of increases in atmospheric CO2, for example, or the
unprecedented summer melting of sea ice in the Arctic