Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Air Resources Information Clearinghouse ARIC, a project of the Center for Environmental Information, Inc.

This groundbreaking study of environmental assessment “provides an essential examination of the factors that shape and dictate our climate policy” (Choice). Discerning Experts reexamines the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at reports involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors explore how experts deliberate and decide on the scientific facts about problems like climate change. They also seek to understand how the scientists involved make the judgments they do, how the organization and management of assessment activities affects those judgments, and how expertise is identified and constructed. Discerning Experts uncovers factors that can generate systematic bias and error, and recommends how the process can be improved. As the first study of the internal workings of large environmental assessments, this book reveals their strengths and weaknesses, and explains what assessments can—and cannot—be expected to contribute to public policy and the common good.

Nearly seven billion people are collectively such a potent force that their influence on the global environment has begun to rival that of Mother Nature. Scientist Richard C. J. Somerville is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, and one of the authors of the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in equal shares to the IPCC and Al Gore for bringing the science behind global change to the world. In The Forgiving Air, Somerville weaves those critical findings into a more accessible story, making the most important issues of our time understandable to all.

I am delighted to present before you the book "Air Pollution". Pollution problems have continuous increase around the world because of increased population growth and associated industrial activities. The presence of high levels of pollutants in nature is of major concern because of their potential threats to both human and ecosystem health. Air pollution poses a grave danger for not only in man but the entire life on this planet. Air pollution have many adverse effect on the nature such as Global warming, Climate change, Ozone depletion, Sea level rise, Adverse effects on biodiversity etc. The foremost thing which deserves to be done is to educate the people that the atmosphere is not meant for dumping all kinds of pollution. Importance of preserving the health and welfare of man, protection of plant and animal life, prevention of damage to property, ensuring visibility for safe air and ground transport, and maintenance of cleaner atmospheric environment should also be explained. We are seeing a series of inovations and experiments aimed at alternate and unconventional options to reduce pollutants. Air Pollution is one of the larger mirrors of man's follies, and a challenge we need to overcome to see a tomorrow. This book provides a detailed knowledge in various aspects of Air pollution. I have taken every effort to incorporate updated facts and interpretations in the light of the latest findings and development in the area concerned. This book will be useful for the graduate and post graduate students of life science and environmental science as a basic reference.