Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
It’s been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can’t we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases, deforestation, and catastrophic warming trends? Why are we still addicted to fossil fuels? Have we all just been fiddling for 40 years as the world burns around us?\ Schneider, part of the Nobel Prize–winning team that shared the accolade with Al Gore in...
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It’s been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can’t we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases, deforestation, and catastrophic warming trends? Why are we still addicted to fossil fuels? Have we all just been fiddling for 40 years as the world burns around us?Schneider, part of the Nobel Prize–winning team that shared the accolade with Al Gore in 2007, had a front-row seat at this unfolding environmental meltdown. Piecing together events like a detective story, Schneider reveals that as expert consensus grew, well-informed activists warned of dangerous changes no one knew how to predict precisely—and special interests seized on that very uncertainty to block any effective response. He persuasively outlines a plan to avert the building threat and develop a positive, practical policy that will bring climate change back under our control, help the economy with a new generation of green energy jobs and productivity, and reduce the dependence on unreliable exporters of oil—and thus ensure a future for ourselves and our planet that’s as rich with promise as our past.
Introduction The Global Playing Field 1Ch. 1 Smoke on the Horizon 9Ch. 2 Drawing Up the Battle Lines 29Ch. 3 Deep Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate 71Ch. 4 A Fragile Planet Grows Alarmed 109Ch. 5 The Battle Heats Up and So Does The World 131Ch. 6 Awareness Dawns On Planet Earth 177Ch. 7 The Media Wars: The Stories Behind Persistent Distortion 203Ch. 8 Habitats for Humanity and Others 233Ch. 9 What Should Keep Us Awake at Night 257Acknowledgments 283Notes 285Index 291
