About this title: Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, "New Yorker" writer Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781596911253ISBN:1596911255
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781596911253ISBN:1596911255
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Binding: Audio Book
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780743555647ISBN:0743555643
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Date Published: 2006-03-07
ISBN-13:9780743555647ISBN:0743555643
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781596911253ISBN:1596911255
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"This book seems poorly-proportioned. It spends too many pages shoring up the existence of anthropogenic climate change and not enough time talking about the implications. Anyone open to the scientific premise isn't going to need 100 pages of proof before getting into the interesting part. Between assessments of the present and forecasts for the future, Kolbert also never pauses to explain exactly why this is a problem. I'm not a climate change skeptic by any means, but my biggest frustration is people who don't lay out the argument for why changing the earth at a geological level is either morally or practically unacceptable. Is it because it will dislocate coastal communities? Because it will wipe out animal species that are important to the ecosystem? Because it will lead to the extinction of man? Any or all of these might be true, but I'd like for people not to just take the catastrophic nature of global warming as an article of faith and tell me so. The most interesting takeaway from this book is that there are a number of positive feedback cycles and trigger points that make the natural human tendency to think of global warming as a steady, linear process very dangerous. Kolbert makes a thorough case for why stored carbon in permafrost, the ice-albedo feedback loop, and other things will make the effects of global warming far more irregular and sudden than we appreciate."
"I wouldn't say I loved it so much as it scared the blue jeans off me. I highly suggest buying this book for anyone in your life who doesn't believe that human-caused global warming is something all scientists (who don't work directly for coal, petroleum, or auto interests) agree on and that there's something we can and must do about it."
By Pete,
The Diggley Dell, Micronesia, Federated States of
"Kolbert's 'Field notes' is as up to date as you can get,(2007), on the hard data of climate change. She travels round the globe to collect findings from scientific projects, researchers and environmentalists to explain in simple terms the harsh realities of human impact on mother earth. She visits both polar regions and many points between to present data on CO2 levels, ice-cap depletion, permafrost, rising sea levels, CFC emissions, third world growth, and inadequate international understanding and responses. I still get amazed at the many sceptics on global warming. The planet will be like Venus before the human bean decides that catastrophe is happening."
"Great essays (you may know if you read her in The New Yorker), and very worth reading; you'll understand that what's happening to the world, ecologically speaking, and how it affects humans. Gas prices (up at times, down at others) are not the reason to care. We're accelerating rapid change ... that we cannot simply slow down at the point when more people drastically feel the effects."
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