With Speed and Violence : Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change (Paperback)

from HadriantheBlind

An overview of the rapidity of climate change, and the comparative instability and complexity of the environment. Provides many frightening examples, although each deserves more time and research.

from tshrope

This is an important and informative book about climate change, both from an historical perspective to projections for the future. What I liked most about this book is that Pearce talks to many different scientists who have different theories about what the central driver of climate change is and...

from Sean191

[With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change] by Fred Pearce I read this recently, over many lunch breaks - although not sure how I managed, since it's enough to make one lose their appetite. The book is nearly a decade old, but that actually made for some intere...

from auntmarge64

Pearce gives a broad overview of many important influences on global climate patterns and the possible consequences of some or all of them working together to bring about alterations too quick for humanity to handle. There is a great deal of information presented, on massive methane sinks in melt...

from Stbalbach

Fred Pearce is a journalist with 'New Scientist' magazine who has been writing about climate change since the 1980s. With a background writing for a popular science magazine he is naturally skilled at quickly distilling complex science into a readable and understandable narrative for the educated...