This was a very easy-to-understand book explaining the impact of global warming. It wasn't too scientific and it wasn't too dreary, even though it was written by the United Kingdom's chief scientific adviser and a London based climate change editor. It includes an explanation of what we can expect, what is happening right now, the Kyoto agreement, how our country adds up in this fiasco (and how WE need to drastically change how we live), how the Bush administration is basically a front for the oil industry and finally what we can do to save the world.