US politics and climate change : science confronts policy / Glen Sussman, Byron W. Daynes.

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Sussman (Old Dominion Univ.) and Daynes (Brigham Young Univ.) explain the evolution of climate change policy response in the US. They report the unequivocal scientific findings that climate change poses significant risks to the planet and its inhabitants, but that the policy response at the national level has not been commensurate to those risks. The book is solid, analytical political science, not advocacy of particular approaches to address climate change. Using extensive secondary sources entirely, Sussman and Daynes focus serially on each branch of government to explain why the federal government has failed to lead an international effort. They include chapters on the many activities of subnational governments and on interest groups and public opinion. Because the book was written before the June 2013 announcement of President Obama's Climate Action Plan and the fall 2013 release of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the authors may want to consider an updated edition. Readers who expect a blueprint for getting beyond the policy impasse will be disappointed. Instead, the book is a sound treatise toward understanding the complex realities of climate change politics. Jargon-free, well-written, and solid scholarship. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. R. E. O'Connor National Science Foundation