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Adult Books - Nonfiction - Social Sciences
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth.
Flannery, Tim (author).
Mar. 2006. 320p. Grove/Atlantic, hardcover, $25 (0-87113-935-9). 363.738.
REVIEW.
First published January 1, 2006 (Booklist).
Alarmed by global warming, Australian scientist Flannery synthesizes evidence supporting a dire disaster-is-near thesis, intending to mobilize his readers personally and politically. Flannery first reviews climate history as preserved in ice cores and sediment cores from the seabed. Explaining how climatic conditions are inferred from these samples, Flannery stresses the natural variability they reveal, adducing as an example the climate’s tip into the warm interglacial period that has prevailed for the past 10,000 years. Incorporating en route information about cyclical changes in the earth’s orbit and axial tilt, the thermodynamics of greenhouse gases, and data indicating these gases have increased, Flannery switches over to descriptions of how nature is affected by global warming. After disturbing his audience with predictions of the imminent disappearance of coral reefs and polar bears, Flannery verbally accosts the industries and politicians he believes are responsible. This work is distinctive in its marriage of science to an act-now attitude and should energize environmentally minded readers. — Gilbert Taylor
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Features That Discuss This Work:
1. Notable Books : 2007
2. Core Collection : Climate Change
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