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Books : Discovery of Global Warming, revised and expanded edition (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
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Discovery of Global Warming, revised and expanded edition (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) by: Weart, Spencer R. List Price: £10.95 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.31 You Save: £1.64 (15%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 551.6 EAN: 9780674031890 ISBN: 067403189X Label: Harvard University Press Manufacturer: Harvard University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: October 31, 2008 Publisher: Harvard University Press Studio: Harvard University Press Sales Rank: 220750 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - An important bookDespite the flat earthers who will not accept what everyone from NASA to Stephen Hawking, to Harvard to Yale to Oxford to Cambridge to the American Academy of Sciences has - that climate change is deadly serious and caused by human activity - this book shows exactly why you should be getting involved and tking this issue seriously. It explains how the world started to wake up to what is happening. If you want to know who has tried to stop us from taking any action read the brilliant and essential BOILING POINT by the Pulitzer prize winning author Ross Gelbspan Rating:  - Landfall or a bank of cloud?The title displays the author's ambition,but perhaps also his anxiety. "Discovery" indicates something irrefutably present and it is clearly his intention to take us on chartered course to what,to him, seems an unavoidable destination - a land in which anthropogenic global warming is significant, imminent and destructive. The story of changing perceptions among 20th century climatologists is told soberly and with some wit but one senses, as the history reaches the last decade, the dispassionate mood dissolving.There is a growing tetchiness on the part of the author towards the awkward squad of scientists who refuses to embrace the proper conclusion. The penultimate chapter, breezily entitled "The discovery confirmed" puts much ... Read More: |
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