Through its focus on the USA, this book provides a framework within which science and policy aspects can be considered together and made applicable to the study of tropical cyclone impacts around the world.

Through its focus on the USA, this book provides a framework within which science and policy aspects can be considered together and made applicable to the study of tropical cyclone impacts around the world.

Climate change has been the subject of thousands of books and magazines, scientific journals, and newspaper articles daily. It's a subject that can be very political and emotional, often blurring the lines between fact and fiction. The vast majority of research, studies, projections and recommendations tend to focus on the human influence on climate change and global warming as the result of CO₂ emissions, often to the exclusion of other threats that include population growth and the stress placed on energy sources due to emerging global affluence.

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For scientists seeking to play a positive role in policy and politics and contribute to the sustainability of the scientific enterprise, scientists have choices in what role they play. This book is about understanding this choice. Rather than prescribing what course of action each scientist ought to take, the book aims to identify a range of options. Using examples from a range of scientific controversies, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy-making and a healthy democracy.