Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, and Insight Boxes -- Preface -- Thirty-Nine Reasons Why We Have to Act Now -- Introduction: This Is Not Global Warming! -- A People in Peril -- This Is Not Global Warming! -- Global Weirding -- What's in a Name? -- Disruptions and Solutions -- The Encyclopedia of Earth -- Part I: What We Know About Climate -- Ch 1: The Dance of Mice and Elephants -- How an Obscure Panel Organized Itself for Action -- Mice and Elephants -- The Scale of the Science: 4,000 Scientists Summarizing -- From the IPCC to International Law -- A Growing Consensus -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 2: Three Questions Every Citizen Should Ask -- Actors and the Stage -- The Three Questions of Environmental Literacy -- Question 1: What Can Happen? -- Question 2: What Are the Odds that It Will Happen? -- Question 3: How Do We Know? -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 3: Homan Carbon as the Smoking Gun -- The Airborne Carbon -- How Are Atmosphere, Greenhouse Gases, and Temperature Linked? -- Both Colder and Warmer, but Never So Quickly -- How Do We Know Humans Cause Warming? -- The Atmospheric Overshoot -- Is A Doubling of Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Likely? -- How Much Warming Does Carbon Dioxide Doubling Cause? -- What is "Dangerous" Here? -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 4: Rising Carbon, Rising Oceans -- A Warmer Sea Is a Rising Sea -- The Polar Express is Slowing Down -- It Is Not Just the Polar Bears -- Greenland's Uncertain Future Prospects -- How Does the Ocean Store So Much Carbon? -- The Mighty Phyto -- Why Is the Ocean Losing Its Capacity as a Carbon Sink? -- What Is Causing the Changes in the Ocean? -- Seeing the Forest for the Carbon -- Connect the Dots -- Part II: How to Think About Climate Solutions -- Ch. 5: The Five Horsemen of Extinction -- Benefits of Biodiversity.

Horseman #1: Habitat Loss and Fragmentation, Leaving No Place Left to Hide -- Horseman #2: Invasive Species from the Last Port of Call -- Horseman #3: Overtaking: What the Grim Reaper Soweth -- Horseman #4: Pollution -- Horesman #5: Climate Change, Disrupting the Mother Nature We Knew -- Forests That Bring the Rain: A Case Example of All of the Above -- Health Consequences for Humans: Disruption Triggers Disease -- Whither Nature? Tipping Elements We Should Fear! -- What Can Be Done? Coevolution and Co-Disappearance -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 6: The Cheapest Carbon -- What Can a Family Do? -- Seven Low-Hanging Fruits for the Family Carbon Diet -- Some of the Cheapest Carbon You're Going to Find -- Cost-to-Benefit Details of the Seven Low-Hanging Fruit -- The True Cost of Carbon (Or Who Owns the Sky?) -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 7: No Silver Bullet, Many Silver Wedges -- No Single Path to Capping Greenhouse Gases -- The Long Term Starts Now -- Techniques to Stabilize Climate -- The Wedges-Within-the-Stabilization-Triangle Game -- No-Regret Climate Wedges -- Energy Waste and Efficiency -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 8: Energy in the Cycle of Material Life -- Life Cycle Thinking: Analyzing the Flow of Materials -- The Life Cycle of Fossil Fuels in Brief -- The Life Cycle of Nuclear Fuel in Brief -- Analyzing Return on Investment for an Energy Source -- Old versus New Sunlight -- The Benefits of No-Regrets Wedges -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 9: Multiple Intensity Disorder -- Six Economies and Four Factors -- What Drives Emissions? -- Multiple Intensity Disorder: Coal = Electricity = Emissions = Problem -- Why Conservation Is Better and Efficiency Is Not Enough -- Technology Wedges: The Potential of Carbon Capture and Storage -- RD3: Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment -- Coda: Americans and Efficiency -- Connecting the Dots.

Part III: How We Work Together Now -- Ch. 10: Carbon Meets Wall Street -- Emerging Awareness -- The "Greatest Market Failure" -- Energy Market Opportunities -- Green Business Principles -- From Principles to Partnerships -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 11: The Climate Message Starts to Stick -- What Do We Think about Climate Change? -- A Boxing Match Attracts an Audience -- Sticky Messages -- Strange Bedfellows -- Philanthropists Filling the Gaps -- Funding Climate Adaptation Work -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 12: Think Globally, Incubate Locally -- Salt of the Earth: Climate Leadership from Unlikely Utah -- Cities Take Measure -- Who Took Our State's Snow? -- Scaling Up -- California and Beyond -- Do the Feds Get It? -- Next Gen Leadership -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 13: Where Science, Policy, and Public Meet -- Do Policymakers Think about Climate Change? -- Know What Your "Ask" Is -- Let's Make "Glocal" News -- Why We Need "Cathedral Thinking" -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 14: Scaling Up Amidst the Curse of Knowledge -- Overcoming the Curse of Knowledge -- Why Kyoto Failed -- How Are We Doing? -- The Road Ahead -- Connect the Dots -- Ch. 15: All of the Above! Solutions in Perspective -- Billions and Billions: A Tale of Two Nations -- Climate Change and Sustainable Development -- Risk Equals Probability Times Consequence -- Sustainomics -- All of the Above! -- Connect the Dots -- Part IV Thirty-Five Immediate Climate Actions -- Actions 1-20: Strategies for Stabilization, Mitigation, and Adaptation -- Action 1: Green Buildings and Building Design -- Action 2: Moving Forward-Transportation and Emissions Reduction -- Action 3: Animal Agriculture and Climate Change -- Action 4: Minimizing Agricultural Impacts on Climate -- Minimizing Climate Impacts on Agriculture -- Action 5: Mitigating Greenhouse Gases Other Than CO2.

Action 6: Energy Efficiency and Conservation -- Action 7: Biofuel Industry and CO2 Emissions-Implications for Policy Development -- Action 8: Solar Energy Scaling Up-Science and Policy Needs -- Action 9: How to Ensure Wind Energy Is Green Energy -- Action 10: Nuclear Energy-Using Science to Make Hard Choices -- Action 11: Economics-Setting the Price for Carbon -- Action 12: Forests and Markets for Ecosystem Services (ES) -- Action 13: Policy Challenges of GHG Rule Making-Where the Rubber Meets the Road -- Action 14: Engaging China on a Pathway to Carbon Neutrality -- Action 15: Human Population and Demographics-Can Stabilizing Population Help Stabilize Climate? -- Action 16: Urban Responses to Climate Change in Coastal Cities -- Action 17: Climate Change Adaptation for the Developing World-Expanding Africa's Climate Change Resilience -- Action 18: Coastal Management and Climate Change -- Action 19: Forest Management and Climate Change -- Action 20: Climate Change, Wildlife Populations, and Disease Dynamics -- Actions 21-28: Guiding and Fostering Multidisciplinary Research -- Action 21: The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)-What Do We Want from the Next Administration? -- Action 22: Availability of Technology to Mitigate Climate Change -- Action 23: CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS)-How Can It Play a Major Role in Mitigating Climate Change? -- Action 24: Counting Carbon-Tracking and Communicating Emitted and Embodied Greenhouse Gases in Products, Services, Corporations, and Consumers -- Action 25: Ocean Fertilization for Carbon Separation -- Action 26: Geoengineering as Part of a Climate Change Response Portfolio -- Action 27: Looking into the Past to Understand Future Climate Change -- Action 28: A National Strategy for Wildlife Adaptation to Climate Change-What Should It Include?.

Actions 29-35: Expanding Climate Information, Education, and Communication -- Action 29: Mass Action-How Scientists Can Engage the Public in Global Dialogue Toward Shared Policy and Behavior Change Solutions for Global Climate Change -- Action 30: Should There Be a National Climate Service? If So, What Should It Do and Where Would It Be? -- Action 31: Communicating Information for Decision Makers-Climate Change at the Regional Scale -- Action 32: Adaptation and Ecosystems-What Information Do Managers and Decision Makers Need? -- Action 33: Diverse Perspectives on Climate Change Education-Integrating Across Boundaries -- Action 34: Building People's Capacities for Implementing Mitigation and Adaptation Actions -- Action 35: Climate Change and Human Health-Engaging the Public Health Community -- Appendix 1: Climate Change Time Line -- Appendix 2: Climate Change: Science and Solutions, Program from the NCSE 8th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment, January 2008 -- Acknowledgments -- Sponsors -- Index.