- This is an excellent summary of the current state of the climate change debate in the US and around the world.
- Its main purpose is to single out and attack the loud and noisy climate change deniers - the usual, very well funded voices mostly representing the fossil fuel industry, and the by now predictable right wing dinosaurs in the Murdoch media.
- Mann is a very well-known climate scientist, famous for his ‘hockey stick’ paper and graph of 1999, which clearly illustrated the dramatic rise in temperatures in the Industrial Age due to the growth of human carbon dioxide emissions. He was pilloried by deniers for ‘getting it ludicrously wrong’. In this exceptionally well written polemic he returns the favour.
- He clarifies the science behind climate change but only presents the details when absolutely needed to flesh out the argument.
- This is a relatively short tome at 215 pages, but is really all you need to get to the heart of the ‘debate’. It is also full of delightful and acerbic cartoons by the Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles.
- This book was originally published in 2016 and therefore missed the arrival of Trump and his reactionary, anti climate change moves. However the paperback edition was published in 2018, so a Trump administration final chapter was able to be included.
- Highly recommended.
(Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books, the price is $37.99. This is a rip-off. The US price is $18.95. At the current exchange rate of around $US0.71 the local price should be no more than $32.99, GST included).
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