Book review: Climate Wars

CLIMATE WARSBY GWYNNE DYER (Oneworld, £12.99)

SPECULATIVE as Dyer's little "history of the future" is, it has an unmistakable – and alarming – ring of truth. Scientists have generally confined themselves to such impersonal data as mean temperatures, sea-levels and – at the most emotive – polar bears. Dyer, though, says these changes really will be global, and they're bound to be massively destabilising, precipitating agrarian crises and epidemics, mass-migrations and large-scale conflict over land, water and food resources.