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Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, humans have become weather makers. As we fuel our activities, we create ozone-destroying chemicals and greenhouse gases that have altered global weather patterns and increased the potential for extreme weather events. Now, for the first time, a scientist provides an accessible and comprehensive account of the history, curre...more

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Jul 29, 2010 James rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Heatwaves, hurricanes, flooding, drought, extinction. No-one can accuse Tim Flannery of understating the effects of global warming. And there's no doubting his passion for the subject. Once sceptical about climate change, he's now a fully-paid up member of the global warming warning brigade. His chapter headings alone - "Peril at the Poles", "The Carbon Dictatorship", "Boiling the Abyss" - signal that he's nailed his colours to the mast. And those colours are all green.

Not so long ago, climate c...more Heatwaves, hurricanes, flooding, drought, extinction. No-one can accuse Tim Flannery of understating the effects of global warming. And there's no doubting his passion for the subject. Once sceptical about climate change, he's now a fully-paid up member of the global warming warning brigade. His chapter headings alone - "Peril at the Poles", "The Carbon Dictatorship", "Boiling the Abyss" - signal that he's nailed his colours to the mast. And those colours are all green.

Not so long ago, climate change was confined to the inner reaches of scientific journals. Now it’s front page news. Hardly a day passes without another instance of wild weather being blamed on global warming. Flannery believes the changes we’ve seen in weather patterns, seasons, biodiversity and, above all, rising global temperatures have a single, man-made cause. Fossil-fuelled industrial development is the villain of the piece - from coal-fired power stations to the infernal combustion engine. So busy have we been in pillaging the Earth‘s resources that it’s only when the planet started fighting back that we woke up to the terrible consequences.

Of course, he’s aware that not all agree with this argument, and so he sets out to support it with an avalanche of evidence. At times, the reader risks being engulfed by statistics, and some of the scientific vocabulary requires both a deep breath and a running jump. Even so, Flannery’s genuine concern for all forms of life on the planet shines through.

But he has to tread carefully. Scary talk about runaway warming, may lead his readers to conclude that it's too late to do anything. Or, as Irving Berlin didn't write: there may be trouble ahead, but let's face the music and turn up the heating. Flannery insists the problem is still soluble, but tackling it will take action by every government, every business and every gas-guzzling, trash-tipping, pollution-pumping one of us.

After braving 200 pages of bleak prognostications, it’s a relief to reach an environmental success story. Flannery calls the 1987 Montreal Protocol the world’s first victory over a global pollution problem, and without it life on Earth would have been in deep trouble. A hole in the planet’s ozone layer risked exposing us to dangerous ultra-violet rays from the sun. The Montreal agreement banned the fluorocarbons that were eating away at this layer, and there are now hopeful signs that the hole is healing.

Despite this good news, Flannery insists prevention is always better than cure, a view that’s reinforced when turning his fire on the energy sector. Just as the tobacco industry spent many decades in denial about the link between smoking and lung cancer, he says, energy companies have been similarly sluggish in facing up to the impact of fossil fuels on the environment. But while he’s scathing about the automobile, Flannery appears resigned to the increasing volume of air traffic and believes aircraft will continue to spew carbon into the atmosphere long after other forms of transport have gone green.

At one point in this book, Flannery speculates that researchers investigating the impact of climate change on mountain regions may have given up because it was all too depressing. It's an odd observation, but if true, who could blame them? Global warming may be a hot topic, but talk of imminent catastrophe is enough to send anyone running for the prozac.

Yet, far from being alarmist or defeatist, Flannery is a convincing advocate of the need for urgent action. Perhaps, if enough of us heed his warning, a Tim Flannery of the future might be able to write a book telling the story of how we saved the planet.
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Jan 05, 2009 Mike rated it 3 of 5 stars

Although the last thing most people need is another 'downer' book about how the climate is spiraling out of control towards disaster, this book manages to deliver more science than opinion and actually offers some reasonable tips on how we can still make a difference if we take the right steps.

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Mar 31, 2009 Steve rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This book is excellent and terrifying. Tim Flannery is a working Australian scientist (mammologist & paleontologist) -- not a journalist -- who lays out the history and science of climate change, likely scenarios for the future, the politics of climate change (both good and bad), and at the very end, provides a manifesto for ways to reduce our carbon output individually. The species he studies have been deeply impacted by climate changes to date, which means that global warming is not just s...more This book is excellent and terrifying. Tim Flannery is a working Australian scientist (mammologist & paleontologist) -- not a journalist -- who lays out the history and science of climate change, likely scenarios for the future, the politics of climate change (both good and bad), and at the very end, provides a manifesto for ways to reduce our carbon output individually. The species he studies have been deeply impacted by climate changes to date, which means that global warming is not just something he decided to write a book about, but has been interested in for years, and that depth of interest is evident in the depth of evidence in the book.

When I think of climate change, I think of many things but most of them are in the past 10 years: the hurricane season of 2005, the '8 of the 10 warmest years of the millennium are in the past decade,' ice shelf breakups in the polar regions, and so on. Flannery cites evidence that we've been seeing impacts for 'much' longer (in human terms), ranging from the drying of the Sahel starting in the 1960's, the extinction of frogs and other amphibians in the 1980's -- and the scary part is that human greenhouse gas emissions have risen dramatically since those impacts started.

So as not to make the book a complete downer, Flannery finishes with both a hopeful note -- the story of the Montreal Protocol to ban CFCs (which caused the 'ozone hole') and how that seemed so hopeless in the early 1980's but actually came about and is now having a positive impact -- and an action list for individuals to reduce their carbon impact. I think I am less hopeful than he as regards our ability to pull off such a large-scale change in our behavior, but it's an important aspect of the book to make it not all doom-and-gloom.

Alas, this book is best written for people who believe (at some level) that humans are responsible for climate change. If you think that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the liberal media and a scientist's conspiracy, well, this book is full of scientific citations. Of course, I don't think anything will convince the denialists until their house goes underwater for good.

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Feb 05, 2009 Bookmarks Magazine added it · review of another edition

The arguments, evidence, and conclusions should surprise few readers in Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe and Flannery's The Weather Makers. Given existing scientific knowledge, neither author (and no critic) doubts that global warming is real, with terrible consequences looming ahead.<P>The difference between the books largely comes down to tone and style. Kolbert, a reporter for the New Yorker, provides an excellent primer on climate change. Praised for her elegance and accessibil

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Feb 20, 2013 Mcgyver5 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science, comingglobalshitstorm

Tim Flannery is a mammologist and paleontologist who has studied ecosystems around the world. Coming from that background, it isn't surprising that much of the book focuses on the impacts to sensitive ecosystems as the climate changes. He helps us see the big picture by extrapolating beyond the impacts he's seen in his sensitive ecosystems. It isn't pretty.
Every sentence of this book is more dire than the last. I don’t know how he did it. I’ve heard of a kind of Japanese art that involves lookin...more

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Jan 24, 2012 Ted rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: environment, global-warming, natural-science

Humanity is at (or has already passed) an historical crossroads. By the end of the 21st century (possibly by the middle of it) enormous changes in the earth's climate and ecosystems will have precipitated equally momentous changes in human society, our economic systems, and in civilization itself.

My personal list of writers who have made significant contributions to the scientific, environmental and societal aspects of what we are heading for include people such as Lester R. Brown, Bill McKibben...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Vikram added it · review of another edition

I learned one thing from this book - that humans have a great capacity to mess up the environment through their actions. Two examples from the book stand out, the first is the depletion of the ozone layer from CFCs. Flannery states that if action hadn't been taken when it was, then we would be in far worse shape then we are now. He mentions that we were lucky bromine was not used in air fresheners and whatnot as it has a far greater rate of destroying ozone. Gave me chills. The other example was...more

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Jun 03, 2010 Guy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ecology, science-and-technology

If, like most people, you have been drifting along, vaguely aware that there might be something called global warming and that it might have some not so good consequences, but you haven't really taken the time to work out how serious it is and whether or not it is something that you could or should do something about... then do yourself, the rest of us, and the animals and plants with which we share the world a favor and read this book. It is short, easy to understand, based on personal experien...more

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Jul 11, 2009 Peter rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A lucid overview, though it definitely zooms around a lot, in time, space and in its considerations of the different facets of the climate change problem. Two specific comments:

Was interesting to see how much Flannery quotes Alfred Russel Wallace, of The Malay Archipelago The land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise a narrative of travel with studies of man and nature. I've never read later Wallace, understanding that his later works devolve into weird late-Victorian spiritualism. But Fl...more

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Mar 07, 2009 Sheila rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Thought provoking, easy to read book with a compelling history of the climate changes around the globe. This book was more comprehensive than I thought it would be.

I am not a scientist. Before reading this book I kind of understood the terms “greenhouse effect”, “global warming”, etc. After reading this book I feel like I truly understand these terms and so much more about our climate and all the factors that influence it.

Flannery notes what is being done now and by whom – which countries are m...more

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Jan 25, 2010 Edward rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Parts of this book were fascinating - the disappearance of the "golden toads" in Costa Rica, for example. Or that the United States has the most varied weather of any country on earth, and India the least varied. but like Al Gore, a little goes a long way, and by the end of the book, while I found myself totally convinced that man is indeed changing the climate of the earth and not for the better, I felt frustrated, too. How will all of this global warming and weather-changing turn out? Yes, the...more

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Jul 23, 2011 Dhitri rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: climate-change, non-fiction, kindle

This book should be considered a climate change "classic": it excellently elaborate the science behind the climate-regulating functions of the Earth's atmosphere, the delicate balance of it and how human's thirst for growth is threatening to destroy that balance, with catastrophic consequences. The book covers many facets of the issue, from the science to the politics, which makes it a one stop shop for all things climate change.

Flannery's writing is beautiful and lucid: it is infused with a ro...more This book should be considered a climate change "classic": it excellently elaborate the science behind the climate-regulating functions of the Earth's atmosphere, the delicate balance of it and how human's thirst for growth is threatening to destroy that balance, with catastrophic consequences. The book covers many facets of the issue, from the science to the politics, which makes it a one stop shop for all things climate change.

Flannery's writing is beautiful and lucid: it is infused with a romanticism for all things nature similarly to what one would find in the works of eighteenth century botanists and biologists (he quotes a lot of Wallace). His prose has a literary quality to it, particularly as he ascribed the atmosphere as "The Great Aerial Ocean" and the "life blood of Earth". All this makes for a great page turner, unexpected for a book packed with so much scientific details.

Considering that this has been published in 2005, it is pretty ahead in voicing the concerns later adopted by the likes of the IPCC report in 2007 and the Stern review. All that delivered in bits and chunks that are digestible to the average reader. Some of the details are outright fascinating: the many layers of the atmosphere, the kinetic quality of its interaction with all living being on earth and the delicate balance at which its climate-regulating functions hinges. Flannery also managed to deconstruct the cliches surrounding climate change and has brilliantly explained the sources of uncertainty in climate modeling.

Having said that, it does have some clear pitfalls. Its ambitious scope makes it difficult for Flannery to cover the aspects outside his strength as a scientist, such as the economics and politics of it, in great depth. In fact, towards the end of the book I felt there was a lot of redundancy regarding his take on the global politics of emission reduction efforts and particularly his ideas of a post-Kyoto Protocol deal.

The alarmist tone to the last few chapters can also be off-putting. Flannery himself conceded to the uncertainty of the science, yet he is trapped into heralding various catastrophic projections of 2050 as the world's certain future. The book really dragged towards the end because of the author repeatedly stopped in his tracks to remind readers that time is running out and that action needs to be taken. Even a believer like me does not respond too well on too much climate crusading.

Finally, a minor but annoying bit has to be the finality with which he starts his last few chapters, which really makes it feel like the book was never going to end. Chapters titled with "Last Steps on the Stairway to Heaven", "The Last Act of God", "Time's Up" made it seem like I had arrived at the end of the book, yet when upon finishing them, I was dismayed to find that there were more chapters to go through (what, another chapter?).

But, still, this book comes recommended to anyone who wants to get a better grasp at the issue. Even in the current flood of information on climate change, any reader would find the book highly insightful as well as enjoyable. (less)

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Oct 19, 2012 Andrew Saul rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Simply excellent. I don't why it took me so long to read this book, it's been sitting on my bookshelf for ages. It's frightening to be sure when someone like Flannery calmly and simply lays out what we know now about climate change and it's causes. The evidence is pretty stark, but he makes sure to balance that constantly with all those things we don't know, and situations which may turn out for the better rather than the worse.

But the message is clear: it's too bigger risk not to do something,...more

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Mar 23, 2010 Dana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fairly decent book on climate change. At least this book had some actual scientific discussions on the indicators of global warming. The initial chapters seem to be written in a fairly objective fashion but towards the end things get a bit more emotional. I have been searching for information on climate change that sticks to facts and really defines what is speculation and what is known. This book does a decent job in that regard, particularly at the beginning of the book. I am now going back an...more

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Jun 01, 2012 A rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, science, non-american-authors

This is a good introductory book on climate change. Flannery was originally a skeptic about climate change. While Flannery doesn't engage in the usual fear-mongering associated with climate change (along the lines of predicting a massive rise in sea levels in the next hundred years or so), there are startling examples of how some species are already succumbing to changes in the climate based on latitude and even altitude. There are also some startling facts about how little additional carbon dio...more

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Aug 15, 2012 Ben rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Anyone

Recommended to Ben by: My aunt Rho.

Shelves: bookshelf, nonfiction, reference, calibre

Summary: A call to arms to combat the drivers of man made climate change. The author contextualises the issue quite well and urges everyone to take action before the impacts outstrip our ability to cope.

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Structure: The first section contextualises the issue; second section makes the argument that things are pretty bad and getting worse; the third section provides some angles on actions that can be taken and provides additional detail and supporting arguments. The structure works...more

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Feb 23, 2011 Mark rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book has given me nightmares twice. Not like, wake up crying run to mommy nightmares, but dark things, like oceans filled with shiet and dark skies that never brighten.

That's not a great recommendation, but I do highly recommend this book because it finally puts all the pieces of the puzzle together in a way that the layman like myself can readily grasp -- you no longer have to take their word for it that CO2 is rising and driving global warming (like in "An Inconvenient Truth"). It's there...more

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Jan 11, 2011 Troy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: environment

The Weather Makers is a great read and an important book for people who wish to gain a little more insight into the details of climate change. Flannery does a wonderful job separating topics into short, interesting chapters that hold the reader's attention throughout the book.

This was especially interesting to read 6 years after it was published because Flannery does make some short term predictions about the state of the Earth's climate. He notes the current (2005) price of oil at $40 per barr...more

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Apr 22, 2008 Jeanne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Flannery wrote The Weather Makers to address three main issues. He wanted to give an overview of the history of climate change, illustrate how it will continue to change over the next century and discuss what we can do to affect those changes. In this well-developed and accessible book, Flannery lays out his claim and issues a challenge to his readers.

Divided into five main sections, Flannery uses short chapters to advance the reader’s understanding of climate change. While the language is not “...more Flannery wrote The Weather Makers to address three main issues. He wanted to give an overview of the history of climate change, illustrate how it will continue to change over the next century and discuss what we can do to affect those changes. In this well-developed and accessible book, Flannery lays out his claim and issues a challenge to his readers.

Divided into five main sections, Flannery uses short chapters to advance the reader’s understanding of climate change. While the language is not “dumbed down,” his writing builds upon ideas in previous chapters to support his thesis. He begins with an Earth Science lesson, defining his terms, explaining how the climate operates, how greenhouse gases enter and leave the atmosphere, and situates climate change in light of historical evidence – the biggest differences between past and present being the rate of change and the fact that people have affected the environment.

Once the reader has a grasp of how Earth and its climate function, Flannery gives examples of how the changing climate impacts plant and animal populations. Entire ecosystems are shown to be imperiled: sea ice is breaking up, coral reefs are in jeopardy, changes in rainfall distribution threaten rainforests and deserts alike. Not only is the natural world affected. Our own ecosystems, the cities and town in which we live, are at risk as drought, flooding and other extreme weather events, such as Hurricane Katrina, put stress on our environment.

The historical changes and current observations give way to a discussion of how we can understand future changes through computer modeling. The results of models, even conservative estimates, forecast a grim future for some inhabitants of Planet Earth. Flannery repeats that some change is, at this point, inevitable due to how long certain gases stay in the atmosphere. For this reason he insists that changes must be made immediately to minimize the impact and stabilize our environment.

Next, Flannery analyzes reactions to climate change. He looks at political, business and special interest influences on what we have done and can do. He does not shy away from the difficulties in instituting the appropriate actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but he balances it against the costs of doing nothing. He also suggests that once we commit to change, we have the technology, creativity and ability to do more than we think we can.

The last section of the book moves away from corporate actions and brings responsibility firmly into the hands of the people. Whether it is a flexing of our political or consumer muscle, Flannery calls for individuals to exercise their rights. He leaves us with a challenge to reduce our own impact on climate change and gives us concrete examples of how we can do just that.(less)

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Aug 27, 2007 Jenwah rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: EVERYONE!

A well written, scientifically-based description of climate change. Flannery writes beautifully, keeping the reader engaged as he explains some of the science, uncertainties and dangers of climate change. Definitely a nice way to digest the info if you're a non-scientist. A nice reminder to scientists on how to communicate the science to others. And--EVERYONE should be familiar with these issues, the first environmental problem on a truely global scale. A scary issue because we don't see all the...more

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Oct 29, 2007 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: common-reading-experience, nonfiction

I read this book for the Common Reading Experience Committee, and I think it's a great book selection for the common read and one that I would recommend to readers interested in the environment.

Like Field Notes by Kolbert, this book tackles the issue of global warming by providing background info, but Weather Makers is much more personable. Flannery gives his own impressions on global warming and its history AND proposes possible solutions to global warming. Kolbert's Field Notes was a saturati...more

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Nov 03, 2009 Valerie added it · review of another edition

I won this book as a door prize. The main novelty is that the Southern Hemisphere is not terra incognita to the author, although Northern Australia is not as well covered as it might be. As a result of reading this book, I not only caught up on events from an area I lived in in my late teens, I also got information that enabled me not to be perennially surprised to hear about drought in Australia, bad fire seasons, mouse plagues, etc.

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May 29, 2012 Ward rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: milieu, science

I almost put down this book after the first chapters, partly because I was annoyed by some minor Dutch translation/typo errors (e.g. H2O [water] was explained as "waterstofdioxide" instead of "diwaterstofoxide"), but I kept on reading and the book got me hooked.

Sometimes there was a bit too much detail on certain topics. But luckily, the book is made up of lots of short chapters (over 30 I think), which made it easy to skip a couple of chapters that I was less interested in.
In the end, a very g...more

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Dec 15, 2009 Teresa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Tim Flannery is an Aussie scientist and committed climate change and environmental science thinker, especially of anecdotal observations and predictions in a similar vein to the Inconvenient Truth. Good to see an easily readable enthusiastic account of climate change, with imagination mixed into science. Good for statistics, ideas to reduce emissions and fuel against sceptics but I felt that the whole story is not told here.

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Oct 21, 2011 Vilo rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Clear, detailed information on how humans have affected the climate since humans began and why the current crisis is serious and how it can be addressed. Flannery points out that the ban on CFCs was effective in stopping the damage to the ozone layer. Detailed explanations of processes I've heard on the news but wasn't quite sure how exactly they functioned. The narrator's Australian accent was a bonus.

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Jan 20, 2013 Jami rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Wow. There was a TON of information in this book. Some of it I have retained, but much more is lost, I am sorry to say. I have to admit, this was probably not a good choice for an audiobook. It's easy to miss something and then you're completely confused as to what he's talking about; however, on the positive side, the voice is mesmerizing. It's such a lovely Australian purr that also helps endear the words to my ear. Getting back to the premise of the whole thing, this is an important read, fil...more

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Aug 10, 2011 Cameron Wells added it · review of another edition

A much less biased book about the environment than i was expecting. I guess a scientist did write it... A lot of media reports about the environment have quoted the content from this book and it's easy to see why once reading it. It's very educational but can get a bit tiresome, especially after getting bombarded with Global warming topics on tv for the last several years.

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Feb 22, 2010 Matt Harris rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I think I read the 2005 version of this book, and I am chewing my nails off to see what has changed since then. Very clear, readable, neccessary book which should be taught in school science.
Strangely reminded me of reading The Road or even Libra, these were not easy books and disappointment lurked on every page. But at least we don't know how Weather Makers ends.

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Aug 03, 2009 Idiosyncratic rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this several years ago. I can hardly say I 'really liked it" (in spite of giving it 4 stars), as it was the most distressing book I'd ever read. Nonetheless, it was the rude awakening I needed - the springboard from blithe ignorance to climate change, peak oil and the harsh reality of what likely awaits our descendants. I am now reading "The Long Descent".

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Jun 10, 2013 Catherine Pierce rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a highly readable introduction to the subject of climate change. Anyone who wants to know why there is so much talk about global warming should read it. Tim Flannery presents scientific information in an entertaining way. I most enjoyed his summary of earth's geological history and overview of earth's atmosphere, the great aerial ocean.

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