Introduction -- Part 1 The big picture -- Chapter 1: Climate change: a short introduction -- Chapter 2: What is climate? -- Chapter 3: A history of weather forecasting -- Part 2 The changing world -- Chapter 4: The changing planet: land -- Chapter 5: The changing planet: hydrosphere -- Chapter 6: The changing planet: atmosphere -- Chapter 7: The decline in biodiversity -- Part 3 Ideas, arguments, and progress -- Chapter 8: Environmentalism: past, present, and future -- Chapter 9: Key environmental thinkers -- Chapter 10: Responses to change -- Index.