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'In a world full of misinformation, 'The Hot Topic' is a beacon of clarity.'

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'With the clarity that Gore rightly commends, they do a fine job ... ['The Hot Topic'] is a material gain for the axis of good.'

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

No hype - just the facts and a good read to boot!, 4 Feb 2008

By	Julie Pike (England) - See all my reviews

The first 100 pages tell you succintly what's happening, why it's happening and what we have to achieve together to help ourselves.

Given the authors credibility you also know that you're getting the right information without worrying about anyone's "agenda" or "spin".

I've done a lot of reading around the subject and for me this book is the best of them.

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

pragmatic and full of ideas of how we can help, 4 Feb 2008

By	eamo (Ireland) - See all my reviews

here is a book about global warming that actually gives you ideas and solutions of how we can sort the problem out. It gives you a very straight forward insight into what the problem is.Instead of been totally negative, the solutions are laid out and explains how people can contribute to tackling this problem on a day to day basis.

excellent book. Practical and eay to read.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Balanced and rational, 1 Feb 2008

By	Symbianist (London) - See all my reviews

The Hot Topic is an exemplary piece of science writing. It spells out the issues clearly and rationally, and presents evidence and analysis of supporting research.

I hope this book will reach a wide audience, because it educates the reader by informing but not by invoking mass hysteria (as, unfortunately, some mainstream media seems to view as essential when discussing this topic).

My only criticism would be that the subject is obviously very complex, with a number of interdependencies between climatic effects (e.g. positive feedback loops). More graphical representation of all this would be helpful for the layman. I found myself needing to go back and re-read some sections to keep all the concepts in my mind, and a few more diagrams would probably make for a useful, and more rapid, reference. However, the format of the book would probably need to be larger, and glossier, to do that successfully, and I suspect the cost would go up accordingly. This book is something that needs to be read by as many as possible, so producing it cheaply is probably wise. It would be great to see it on the national curriculum as a science text book in future.

Let's hope that Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King write a follow up handbook, for those that wish to pursue the topics further. They've certainly done a great job with this book.

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