The Weather Makers: Summary and book reviews of The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery, plus links to an excerpt from The Weather Makers and a biography of Tim Flannery.
The Weather Makers How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery
Hardcover: Mar 2006,
352 pages.
Paperback: Jan 2001,
400 pages.
Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Niño ever recorded, the most devastating hurricane in two hundred years, the hottest European summer on record, and one of the worst storm seasons ever experienced in Florida. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point. The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Along with a riveting history of climate change, Tim Flannery offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals, from investing in renewable power sources like wind, solar, and geothermal energy, to offering an action plan with steps each and every one of us can take right now to reduce deadly CO2 emissions by as much as 70 percent.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The finest account of the overwhelming science behind global warming. Flannery gives us a terrifying glimpse of the future.
Kirkus Reviews
Starred review. An authoritative yet accessible presentation of the scientific evidence that climate change is happening; a clear delineation of what global warming has done and could do to life on our planet; and an urgent call for action. A powerful and persuasive book, sure to provoke strong reaction.
Booklist - Gilbert Taylor
This work is distinctive in its marriage of science to an act-now attitude and should energize environmentally minded readers.
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain
Climate change is perhaps the most challenging collective action problem the world has faced. Almost uniquely, The Weather Makers provides insights not only into the history, science, and politics of climate change, but also the actions people can take now that will make a difference. Only through understanding can problems be properly addressed and solved. All who read The Weather Makers will be left wiser and able to appreciate how fragile our climate is and how it is this generation who must act to protect it.
Bill Bryson
It would be hard to imagine a better more important book.
Sydney Morning Herald
Like Jared Diamond and Stephen Jay Gould, Tim Flannery has the ability to take complex ideas and - seemingly effortlessly - make them accessible. This book captures your imagination through its extraordinary range of argument, its vivid imagery, its wealth of research, quick wit and richness of detail. It succeeds where equally worthy but more prosaic recent books have failed. You need to read it carefully, twice.
Publishers Weekly
Starred review. Flannery consistently produces the hard goods related to his main message that our environmental behavior makes us all 'weather makers' who 'already possess all the tools required to avoid catastrophic climate change'.
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