Book reviews : Houghton, J.T., Meiro Filho, L.G., Callander, B.A., Harris, N., Kattenberg, A. and Maskell, K., editors, 1996: Climate change 1995 - the science of climate change - contribution of Working Group I to the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xii + 572 pp. £65.00 cloth; £22.95 paper. ISBN: 0 521 564 336 cloth; 0 521 564 360 paper. Watson, R.T., Zinyowera, M.C. and Moss, R.H., editors, 1996: Climate change 1995 - impacts, adaptations and mitigation of climate change: scientific-technical analyses - contribution of Working Group II to the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. x + 886 pp. £65.00 cloth; £24.95 paper. ISBN: 0 521 56431 X cloth; 0 521 56437 9 paper