The official publication builds on findings from the Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change conference, held at the Met Office last February, at the start of the UK's G8 Presidency.

Included in the book are:

• a Met Office/University of Reading report on the melting of the Greenland ice sheet
• an overview of dangerous climate change
• an assessment of the risk of the Gulf stream collapsing

In his foreword to the book, the Prime Minister Tony Blair said: "This book will serve as more than a record of another conference or event. It will provide an invaluable resource for all people wishing to enhance global understanding of the science of climate change and the need for humanity to act to tackle the problem."

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