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"'Robert Kunzig has an epic saga to tell and he does it with flair and an infectious excitement.'Daily Telegraph 'Part history, part science book, part other-worldly travelogue, this is a magical mystery tour filled with wonders.'Daily Mail 'An exhaustive and enthralling trawl of the ocean floor.' Sunday Times 'Every popular science writer tries to bring new worlds into view; Kunzig's is especially compelling because his new world is so strange, yet so firmly linked to our own.'Guardian"
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The Economist, U.S Edition, 17 May 2008
"...the presence of a co-writer adds to the charm of the story, for Robert Kunzig seems to have fallen for Mr Broecker and his world. It is easy to see why. (Mr Kunzig) has a lovely appreciation of the poetry of science. Buy this one. Forget the rest."
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The boy's journey to meet the beast began in Los Angeles, in the summer of 1955. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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Science book of the year?,
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This review is from: Fixing Climate: The story of climate science - and how to stop global warming (Paperback)
This really is an outstanding book - or, perhaps, two outstanding books. The first half is essentially the (surprisingly compelling) story of climate science, told in parallel with the remarkable career of Wally Broecker. Its author, Robert Kunzig, wrote one of the great popular science books - Mapping the Deep: The Story of Ocean Science - and has that brilliant knack of slipping difficult science into a familiar, human narrative, so you "get it" without realising you're being challenged.
But it's the second half which is, literally, thrilling, as Kunzig and Broecker outline their vision of CO2 as a "fixable problem", just as the disposal of sewage was a century ago. Their fix is a radical invention by physicist Klaus Lackner (who sounds a genius) which will allow CO2 to be removed from the air by millions of car-sized "carbon scrubbers" and then sequestered in deep ocean or oil wells, or in basalt schists in Iceland. This is a book that offers hope to the climate crisis. Not that the authors for a second make light of its seriousness: quite the reverse. But they feel that not enough will be done to reduce emissions until it's too late. Unless the Lackner machines can come to our rescue. An absolutely vital book, and beautifully written. Science book of the year, in my opinion.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Facts and honesty, with a light at the end of the tunnel...,
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This review is from: Fixing Climate: The story of climate science - and how to stop global warming (Paperback)
I read Fixing Climate in around a day and a half as I was transfixed, -it's phenomenal. Firstly, I never thought I would enjoy a 'science' book, let alone one about climate change as everyone is banging on about it, but I found it fascinating. It has a brutal honesty. There is no spin, no opinion, just facts and history, who can argue with that?
It has however made me wonder if turning all the lights off (and my monitor) at night will make a difference to this colossal problem that we face, I think governments are the place where change can happen. I think above all it's wonderfully written with a warm humour which makes it even more enjoyable. If you read one book on the environment - make it this one.
1.0 out of 5 stars
a waste of time. Often assuming and incorrect.,
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This review is from: Fixing Climate: The story of climate science - and how to stop global warming (Paperback)
Firstly let me stress I was looking forward to reading this book, as neither AGW religious not "skeptic" I enjoy reading books like this from a science-based factual basis. So first of all I was left with this question regarding this book : "WHERE is the science". rather than use detailed data and analysis, the authors chose to re-hash social commentary and alarmist myths that have no basis in truth. If you are already worshipping at the alter of AGW you will love this book because it gleefully ignores the actual facts about things like actual sea levels and actual global "extreme events" and seems to arbitrarily pick tenuous examples to prove points. The biggest problem I have with this book though is fundamental, they keep referring to climate models and IPCC projections like they have ANY CREDIBILITY !? This I find astonishing. Current global trends in climate and weather patterns show absolutely no correlation whatsoever to the discredited models of the 90s. The models say the global temperature is now soaring when in fact it is trending downwards since 1998. Also I did not see one graph or data-based evidence that would help the reader see the REAL global temperature patterns of the last 2000 years. Educating the reader in this fashion would be helpfull but I can see why they did not do this, because if they had it would render most of two chapters useless commentary. The hockey stick for most neutral observers is now obsolete history, a discredited con-trick. So why keep referring to it !? I would have loved this book to be more deeply searching in areas where they could disprove some of the claims of the so-called "skeptics". Another huge mistake for me was to talk about glaciers in a general sense as if to prove AGW without actually referencing any core peer reviewed material that was relevant. On the other side of the fence, Don Easterbrook in his book devotes a whole chapter to a puplished paper of global historic Glacial events evidenced by morraine research and carbon dating. The problem I have with the climate debate at the moment is too many bloggers and so-called "authors" are producing books on the subject without actually respecting the core values of science we are supposed to hold in high esteem. I would absolutely love to read a book that scientifically convinces me about some aspect of Climate change attributed to man. This is not it. The IPCC is NOT a scientific organisation. They may employ scientists who tell them what they want to hear perhaps but at the end of the day this is an organisation whose models are wrong and obsolete, who publish non peer-reviewed statements about Polar ice, Himalayan glacier dissappearance and many more. So why keep referencing them !? Its as if the authors don't live in the real world. To be fair to them (and this is a major point) this was written pre-climate gate so they still probably held people like Prof Jones in high esteem. Now we all know the shambles that was his work ethic we have the benfit of hinesight that they did not have. SO I would not recommend this book to anyone who likes evidence and rigour but you will like this if you like a whole book written on two major assumptions that most people are now starting to doubt. maybe they need to re-write or update this book !? I hope so because I would read it and hopefully give it 4 or 5 stars....
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