The Weather Makers
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The Weather Makers is a book of the utmost importance to everyone on the planet.
Tim Flannery tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help us understand the predicament we face. By burning fossil fuels we are increasing the levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, causing our planet to become warmer.
Every nation is differently affected by these changes but we have one thing in common-we are now the weather makers, and the new climate we are creating threatens the future of our civilisation.
Tim Flannery makes the urgent issue of climate change completely accessible. He shows how we can all help to combat these problems. You may be surprised at how much you can do. The Weather Makers will change your life.
'At last, here is a clear and readable account of one of the most important but controversial issues facing everyone in the world today.' Jared Diamond
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mammologist and paleontologist Flannery (The Eternal Frontier), who in recent years has become well known for his controversial ideas on conservation, the environment and population control, presents a straightforward and powerfully written look at the connection between climate change and global warming. It's destined to become required reading following Hurricane Katrina as the focus shifts to the natural forces that may have produced such a devastating event. Much of the book's success is rooted in Flannery's succinct and fascinating insights into related topics, such as the differences between the terms greenhouse effect, global warming and climate change, and how the El Ni o cycle of extreme climatic events "had a profound re-organising effect on nature." But the heart of the book is Flannery's impassioned look at the earth's "colossal" carbon dioxide pollution problem and his argument for how we can shift from our current global reliance on fossil fuels to a hydrogen-based economy. Flannery consistently produces the hard goods related to his main message that our environmental behavior makes us all "weather makers" who "already possess all the tools required to avoid catastrophic climate change."
Customer Reviews
The Weathermakers is a Must-Read
Every person on this planet should read this book. Despite being written a decade ago the science is sound and has only been further reinforced with time as more literature supports the findings that greenhouse gas emissions are warming our planet.
Action needed to be taken a decade ago when this was written yet not much progress has been made since. In that time we have seen more species go extinct, more wild weather from cyclones to floods to droughts, and watching the polar ice caps continual retreat.
We are leaving a terrible legacy for future generations due our obstination and ignorance of an inhospitable global climate that will beyond our control.
If only we listened to people like Mr Flannery a decade ago...