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Midwest Common Sense
  • Rated 5 stars

We have ten years to solve the global climate crisis (according to James Hansen, head of NASA). Read this to understand the challenges and consequences of our disastrous environmental policies. "The next 10 years will be the most important in the next 10,000 years." - Dr. Sylvia Earle (Ocean Explorer, National Geographic Society), on what we do, or fail to do, regarding climate change. From House Global Warming Committee hearing, C-SPAN, Tues. 4-29-08. (www.globalwarming.house.gov)

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clockstein
  • Rated 2 stars

The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery taught me a lot about the environment and how I can positively (or at least less negatively) effect it. However, it also made me mad as heck. I picked up this book hoping for a non-partisan look at the truth about what's going on with the climate in our world. Environmental change has become such a political issue, I was hoping that this book would be written without the kind of vitriolic...

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