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Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climateemergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep this side of the1.5C dangerous climate change guardrail. The upshot is that we can no longer dodge thearrival of disastrous, all-pervasive climate breakdown that will come as a hammer blow toglobal society and economy. Bill McGuire, Professor of Geophysical and Climate Hazards, explains the science behindthe climate crisis, painting a blunt but authentic picture of the sort of world our childrenwill grow old in, and our grandchildren grow up in; a world that we catch only glimpses ofin today's blistering heatwaves, calamitous wildfires and ruinous floods and droughts. Bleak though it is, the picture is one we must all face up to, if only to spur genuine action- even at this late stage - to stop a harrowing future becoming a truly cataclysmic one.

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Ironically, it's never been harder telling the full truth about the climate emergency. That truth is so shocking. So painful. It invites rejection. But there can be no authentic hope for a better world without that truth being unflinchingly spelled out. Thanks then to Bill McGuire for doing exactly that in Hothouse Earth - and for still leaving us with plenty of reasons to be hopeful - just so long as we get our shit sorted without any further delay. -- Jonathon Porritt, environmental campaigner and author of Hope in Hell: A Decade to Confront the Climate Emergency

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Bill McGuire is Professor Emeritus of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at UniversityCollege London, a co-director of the New Weather Institute, and was a contributor to the2012 IPCC report on climate change and extreme events. His books include A Guide tothe End of the World: Everything you Never Wanted to Know and Waking the Giant: How aChanging Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes. He writes for manypublications including The Guardian, The Times, The Observer, New Scientist, Focus andProspect, and blogs for the New Weather Institute, Scientists for Global Responsibility,Extinction Rebellion and Operation Noah.

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