Draws upon the author's decades of experience - including as a top science adviser to the Obama administration - to provide up-to-date insights and expert perspective free from political agendas

Part I: the science. What we know about warming -- Humble human influences -- Emissions explained and extrapolated -- Hyping the heat -- Tempest terrors -- Precipitation perils - from floods to fires -- Sea level scares -- Apocalypses that ain't -- Who broke "the science" and why -- Fixing the broken science Part II: the response. Chimera of carbon-free -- Could the US catch the chimera? -- Plans b