The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming - Brossura

Walker, Gabrielle; King, D. A.

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ISBN 10: 0156033186 ISBN 13: 9780156033183

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2008

Riassunto

Last year, awareness about global warming reached a tipping point. Now one of the most dynamic writers and one of the most respected scientists in the field of climate change offer the first concise guide to both the problems and the solutions. Guiding us past a blizzard of information and misinformation, Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King explain the science of warming, the most cutting-edge technological solutions from small to large, and the national and international politics that will affect our efforts.

While there have been many other books about the problem of global warming, none has addressed what we can and should do about it so clearly and persuasively, with no spin, no agenda, and no exaggeration. Neither Walker nor King is an activist or politician, and theirs is not a generic green call to arms. Instead they propose specific ideas to fix a very specific problem. Most important, they offer hope: This is a serious issue, perhaps the most serious that humanity has ever faced. But we can still do something about it. And they’ll show us how.

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE HOT TOPIC

“This is a fantastic book. It’s just what the world needs right now.”—Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers

“A masterful book, wonderfully well-written. It should become the authoritative statement on climate change and what to do about it for years to come.” —James Lovelock, author of The Revenge of Gaia

L'autore:

GABRIELLE WALKER is a contributing editor for New Scientist; she was previously climate change editor at Nature. She is the author of An Ocean of Air and Snowball Earth. She lives in London.
SIR DAVID KING is the United Kingdom’s chief science adviser and a professor and director of research at the University of Cambridge. He lives in London and Cambridge.


GABRIELLE WALKER is a contributing editor for New Scientist; she was previously climate change editor at Nature. She is the author of An Ocean of Air and Snowball Earth. She lives in London.

SIR DAVID KING is the United Kingdom’s chief science adviser and a professor and director of research at the University of Cambridge. He lives in London and Cambridge.

David King is a professor of chemistry at Cambridge University and director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University.

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0156033186
• ISBN 13: 9780156033183
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 276