It is a book about language in contemporary politics, structured around buzzphrases such as "community", climate change/global warming, and "war on terror".
"When you put it all together," she said, "the picture that's coming out is that climate warming is affecting wild organisms."
But it affirmed the scientific consensus that human-caused climate warming could well be a dominant environmental problem throughout the new century, depending on how fast the gases accumulate in coming decades.
Between 1850 and 1950 a long-term trend of gradual climate warming is observable, and during this same period the Marsham record of oak leafing dates tended to become earlier.
On the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, where climate warming has been especially dramatic, nearly four million contiguous acres of white spruce trees have been killed by spruce bark beetles.
Whatever the merits of the science may be , the scientists involved have to realise this issue of climate warming has become a political football.
The mounting evidence of human contributions to climate warming has raised pressure on American policy makers to reconsider their reliance on voluntary measures for reducing heat-trapping emissions.
The research evidence is relatively clear that climate warming will mean reductions in total U.S. heating requirements and increases in total cooling requirements for buildings.
The problem of climate warming is one of the main issues troubling the modern world.
Over Colorado's central Rocky Mountains, climate warming could push freezing level heights 400 m (1,300 feet) higher by 2070.
