The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

from dchaikin

A discussion on global warming that covers an assortment of aspects, and presents an absolutely convincing argument that global warming is both real and far along. Topics covered included the earth's climate history, the mechanisms of global warming, the effects present and future, Kyoto and othe...

from aahlvers

I ended up getting so worked up about The Weather Makers that I ran around telling co-workers, fellow commuters and complete strangers that we are bad bad people who are killing the planet with CO2 emissions. I ended up going to websites to do check out the latest research and looked up ways that...

from websearchlady

If you read only one book about climate change let it be this one.

from Ramirez

Everything you want to know on the global warming issue.

from VioletBramble

Fossil fuels - oil, coal, and gas - are all that remains of organisms that, many millions of years ago, drew carbon from the atmosphere. When we burn wood, we release carbon that has been out of atmospheric circulation for a few decades, but when we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon that has b...