A Crisis Like No Other: Understanding and Defeating Global Warming couples engaging and creative storytelling with accurate details to explain global warming. It covers both the technical and human issues of global warming by addressing what's causing global warming, and why people don’t believe it exists. The book tells readers how to convince others that global warming is not only real, but life-threatening, and offers a clearly laid out path to solve it. The book is accurate and carefully researched, drawing on the author's thirty years studying the science of global warming, and the human psyche that surrounds it.
The author breaks down the subject into four parts, which can be thought of as four mini-books in one. The first part covers the psychology of global warming denial, how to defend ourselves against its lies and fake news, and how to convince others of global warming’s grave harm. The second part describes exactly what global warming is. The third answers the question what makes us so sure? Finally, the last part provides a road map showing us how to defeat global warming.
This book is comprehensive, fast paced, and easily accessible to readers from all walks of life. It provides an overview of everything one needs to know about global warming and, as such, is an excellent survey of global warming topics. In addition to being an easy and enjoyable read for the general public, A Crisis Like No Other: Understanding and Defeating Global Warming serves as a handy primer on climate change for environmental science classes.
The author breaks down the subject into four parts, which can be thought of as four mini-books in one. The first part covers the psychology of global warming denial, how to defend ourselves against its lies and fake news, and how to convince others of global warming’s grave harm. The second part describes exactly what global warming is. The third answers the question what makes us so sure? Finally, the last part provides a road map showing us how to defeat global warming.
This book is comprehensive, fast paced, and easily accessible to readers from all walks of life. It provides an overview of everything one needs to know about global warming and, as such, is an excellent survey of global warming topics. In addition to being an easy and enjoyable read for the general public, A Crisis Like No Other: Understanding and Defeating Global Warming serves as a handy primer on climate change for environmental science classes.
Table of Contents
Part I. We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us--PogoChapter 1 Why We Deny Global Warming
Chapter 2 Only Through Their Beliefs and Emotions Can We Reach Their Minds
Chapter 3 Finding the Truth Amidst a Sea of Lies
Part II. The What’S and How’S of Global Warming
Chapter 4 Energy Drives Global Warming
Chapter 5 Rising Temperatures Are a Problem, But Not the Only Problem
Chapter 6 Where Heat Trapping Gases Come From
Part III. Why We Believe Global Warming is Real and Significant
Chapter 7 Global Warming is Undeniable. Here’S Why
Chapter 8 Science Doesn’T Work the Way You Think It Should
Chapter 9 Nothing in Life Can Ever Be Certain. Nature Forbids It
Chapter 10 If the Military is Concerned, We Should Be Too
Part IV. The Final Verdict
Chapter 11 So How Bad is It?
Chapter 12 Can Anything Be Done, or is It Game Over?
Chapter 13 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
