The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

The Weather Makers

How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

By Tim Flannery
(Grove Press, Paperback, 9780802142924, 400pp.)

Publication Date: December 2006

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Compact Disc

Categories: Environmental Conservation & Protection - General, Environmental Science, Weather

Description

Both an urgent warning and a call to arms, "The Weather Makers" outlines the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what people can do to prevent a cataclysmic future.

Praise For The Weather Makers…

“At last, here is a clear and readable account of one of the most important but controversial issues facing everyone in the world today. If you are not already addicted to Tim Flannery's writing, discover him now:The Weather Makersis his best book yet.” —Jared Diamond, author ofCollapseandGuns, Germs & Steel

“He makes sure that you will never again look at an electric-light switch in quite the same way. . . . Gives his material . . . [an] impassioned, fiery tone . . . He builds a galvanizing, intentionally polarizing case for the urgency of altering our patterns of energy use. . . . Detail-packed to the point of terrible fascination.” —Janet Maslin,New York Times

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