This book attempts to fill a gap in the market of books on climate change, namely bringing together the biological sciences. It is aimed at the undergraduate market, which defines the depth of details discussed. It also has to cross many biological disciplines, and therefore needs to avoid specialism jargon. Overall, it achieves these objectives very well. The figures and tables are clear and illustrate the text well and there is a reasonable glossary. The book starts with basic climate change information, focusing particularly on the methodology that has been crucial to establishing the consensus. There then follow several ‘responses’ chapters before looking more towards future consequences. An area that is a bit thin is microbes in the aerial environment, although there is a whole chapter devoted to the soil. This probably reflects more the lack of research in the aerial microbe–plant and microbe–animal interactions. The book finishes with two refreshing but daunting chapters on multiple stressors and the limits of science. If ever there was clear evidence for ‘more research needs to be done’, it is well illustrated here. All chapters can simply be used to illustrate the general state of our knowledge in different areas, but through key references should lead questioning students to investigate areas of particular interest in more depth. It is also useful for climate change research specialists for keeping abreast of developments in the broader context of their research. The book will obviously date rapidly as climate change science is progressing fast in some areas, so I hope this will be updated regularly.