Climate Wars
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (812 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072K2NQ4R |
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| Number of Pages | : | 533 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Doing so will also make Australia attractive for the massive global market of investors and create new jobs in clean energy.Climate Wars argues that only Labor, the party with a proven track record for national reform, has the plan and the will to ensure bold action before it is too late.". "As the consequences of climate change become perilously close to the point of no-return, time-wasting wars over what to do distract us from taking real action.Mark Butler, the opposition minister for climate change and energy, makes a forceful case for using less and cleaner energy as part of global action to save the planet
Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; military and political sources including former CIA head James Woolsey. The multitude of sources and the political perspective on global warming make the book scarier and more convincing than the usual predictions limited to climate and weather. All rights reserved. His apocalyptic predictions are drawn from unimpeachable sources: climate experts like NASA scientist James Hanson and Angela Merkel's climate change adviser, Dr. Environmentalists will likely be horrified and even more depressed than they are already, but we can hope that Dyer's sources are impressive enough to convince policy makers to take serious action. . (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Even Dyer's most optimistic scenario is barely cause for celebration: humanity manages to curb global warmi
JL_Farmer said Dated but frightening.. Dated but frightening.. Bruce B lusignan said Read this book. A must-read for people interested in a future for humans on earth. "It's not just the science; it's the politics as well" according to K. F. Laux. I have read just about every book on climate change published, I think. Every serious book, anyways. (Which means I haven't read anything by denialists such as Pat Michaels or Roy Spencer. So sue me)Dyer's book is, I think, the best. At least, one of the very small handful of "must-read" books.This is not because
He holds a Ph.D. Dyer writes a syndicated column that appears in more than 175 newspapers around the world. Gwynne Dyer has served in the Canadian, British and American navies. . in war studies from the University of London, has taught at Sandhurst and served on the Board of Governors of Canada’s Royal Military College