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'For anyone who wants a lucid, factual, reliable guide to some of the most important issues of our time, I strongly recommend you check out the No-Nonsense Guides.' Howard Zinn, historian, playwright and social activist 'A splendid series of pocketable guides to issue politics... rigorously clear.' The Guardian, London
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More hurricanes, glacier melt - instances of extreme weather are becoming more frequent and there is a greater awareness of the disproportionate effect climate change will have on poorer countries in the South. Each new scientific report on climate change makes increasingly alarming predictions about global warming. The threat is impossible to ignore. Or is it? Most governments have responded slowly, if at all, pointing to an attitude of denial and a reluctance to instigate the major changes needed. This guide looks at the latest findings, explores the options and explains why carbon emissions trading and nuclear power are not the answer. It calls for measures to clean up our act, cut energy use, and improve energy efficiency.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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The No Nonsense Guide to Climate Change is a quick and easy way to get up to speed on some of the science and formative international agreements covering possibly the most important issue facing humanity. The guide is laid out clearly and is littered with useful diagrams and easy to understand sets of facts and figures. One of these is a world map showing extreme weather conditions in 2000, which are frighteningly many and cover all of the continents - additionally it looks at the economic and human costs of these freak weather events and makes a very valid point that although extreme weather effects us all, it is more disastrous for those living in poverty than the developed nations such as the US - one example is the effect of hurricanes on the rich and poor worlds: The rich lose $22 billion, with $16 billion covered by insurance with a death toll of 52, whilst conversely the poor lose $7 billion of which only $150 million is covered by insurance and the death toll is over 11,000!
In short, this book will give you an overview of what has happened so far and some predictions for the future whilst keeping in mind that there are positive effects we can all have both as individuals and as nation states. The No-Nonsense series does what it says on the tin and won't baffle you with science or too much rhetoric.
Well worth reading, but additional research would be needed to get a more detailed knowledge of the contemporary debates as the book is becoming dated mainly due to the Earth Summit 2002 and recent updates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Climate change has, unfortunately, become an issue clouded by politics. Here, then, is a calm, measured voice, informed and informative, to stand against the loud lone voices trying to talk down this most pressing issue. The science is elucidated and unravelled from the politics, with evidence that nature and the weather is already telling us climate change is here and happening clearly presented. The book ends, as it must, with the chapter, "Lasting solutions to a global crisis". Small, short, sensible and useful.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Not "Bad Science" Anymore!
26 Dec 2002
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Even conservatives now admit that global warming is a reality and that it's primarily the result of fossil fuel use (see the EPA document on global warming published earlier this year). But the extent of the problem is only beginning to sink in. The twentieth century was the hottest century, the 1990s the hottest decade of the millennium, and 1998 the hottest year of the 1990s (we know this from analyzing atmospheric gases trapped in Arctic ice). And we're only feeling the effects of CO2 emissions from 35 years ago! The nasty effects of all the emissions since then haven't even kicked in yet. Moreover, global warming will also lead to "feedback"--the official term for extreme weather. Tornadoes out of season, violent thunderstorms and hail, droughts, floodings, blizzards: all of these are already occuring as wind currents and meterological conditions feel the effects of overall global warming.
Dinyar Godrej's *Climate Change,* a volume in the excellent "No-Nonsense" series, outlines the basic (and frightening!) facts about global warming, backing his claims up with a wealth of data and references. This makes his book a convenient (and affordable) resource for anyone who wants to get a handle on what's happening to the planet. But Godrej also offers some social, political, and personal suggestions for slowing down and hopefully reducing the human activity that creates global warming. Highly recommended. Read it, get scared, get angry, get working! And while you're at it, get rid of your SUV.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A bit too much nonsense
18 April 2007
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Unfortunately the author has gotten some of the science wrong, stating for example that carbon is radioactive and mislabeling important graphs. Since this is the 3rd edition one would have hoped the editors would have glanced at the book since it was written in 2001. The author (an immigrant from India) has a very strong anti developed-world bias. He argues vehemently against carbon trading and offsets, not acknowledging that these mechanisms reduce CO2 buildup. He wants instead, I think, punishment to be meted out to the developed countries for their success and rewards to be given to developing countries for their lack of success. He does not appear to want emission controls on developing countries, but prefers that the developed world gift the developing world with free solar power plants. For a no-nonsense guide, there is too much of this nonsense.
I do like the chart on top of page 138 on tips to personally cut emissions (like becoming a vegetarian).
I do like the chart on top of page 138 on tips to personally cut emissions (like becoming a vegetarian).
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