The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming - Hardcover

Pielke Jr., Roger A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465020526 ISBN 13: 9780465020522

Publisher: Basic Books, 2010

Synopsis

The world's response to climate change is deeply flawed. This book is where we begin to get it back on track. The relationship between humans and the earth system that we inhabit is two-way - humans affect the planet and the earth system processes affect us. This symbiosis is characterised by empirical complexities and uncertainties, the most intense of which is the global climate change debate in recent years. These debates are often characterised by a considerable amount of heat, but unfortunately too little light. Environmental studies and science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr. recommends we should first comprehend why the current approach is failing and then consider better alternatives. While tearing down the venomous politics that have surrounded the debates, Pielke calls for an alternative to the various wishful proposals, typified by the Kyoto Protocol, that hold essentially that ordering climate change to go away will make it go away. The conventional wisdom on how to deal with climate change has failed us, Pielke argues, and it's time to change course. Using nothing more than arithmetic and logical explanation, Pielke provides a comprehensive exploration of the problem and its resolution - such as investing to create a more carbon-efficient economy and cost-efficient carbon-capture technologies. With the goal of advancing the discussion on climate change and contributing to the ongoing national debates in Europe, the United States, Japan, Australia, India, China, and other developed and developing countries, "The Climate Fix" offers something new to the climate-change discussion - a common sense perspective. A thought-provoking yet pragmatic discussion of the interaction between science and politics, "The Climate Fix" proposes a means for digging ourselves out of this climate-change mess that we have created.

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About the Author

Roger Pielke, Jr. is a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado. He is widely published on many aspects of mitigation and adaptation policies, as well as the role of science in political debates, and he blogs very regularly at Roger Pielke Jr's Blog: (rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com). He has published in The Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, The New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, and elsewhere in the US and internationally. He has also made appearances on NPR, CNN, and other outlets, and is often cited in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He is author of The Honest Broker. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Edition details

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465020526
• ISBN 13: 9780465020522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288