Be scared - very scared - by climate change, says development specialist

Climate Change and Natural Disasters - Transforming Economies and Policies for a Sustainable Future By Vinod Thomas Published by Transaction Publishers, USA

VINOD Thomas's book Climate Change and Natural Disasters makes for uncomfortable reading and if anyone needs to suffer discomfort, it is surely "climate-change denier in chief" US President Donald Trump. The message is that climate change is happening - faster than we realise - and that those who deny this are courting disaster.

A factual and unemotional account of climate change such as this offered by development specialist Mr Thomas is short enough not to tax the attention span even of presidents, and ought to shock them into becoming "believers". But people often ignore what they do not wish to believe.