Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

by William H. Calvin

Book Overview

Every decade since 1950 has seen more floods and more wildfires on every continent. Deserts are expanding, coral reefs are dying, fisheries are declining, hurricanes are strengthening. The debate about climate change is over: there's no question that global warming has made the Earth sick, and the outlook for the future calls for ever-warmer temperatures and deadlier results. Something must be done-but how quickly?
With Global Fever, William...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226092046
• ISBN13: 9780226092041
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Global Fever

Excellent book! Written in such a way as to be understandable to those with little background in climate issues yet blunt enough in its analysis to wake up those who politically or otherwise are laggards when it comes to moving forward on existential environmental issues. Written in plain english!