The Weather Makers (TPB - Airside): The History and Future Impact of Climate Change - Softcover

Flannery, Tim

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9780713999303: The Weather Makers (TPB - Airside): The History and Future Impact of Climate Change

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713999306 ISBN 13: 9780713999303

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2006

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Terrifying and inspiring, The Weather Makers is a page-turning epic that brings the most elusive and powerful of natural phenomena within our grasp.

Internationally acclaimed writer, scientist and explorer, Tim Flannery takes us on a journey through history and around the globe as he describes the wondrous diversity of the world's ecosystems and explains how 'the great aerial ocean' unites us. Along the way, we meet polar bears and golden toads, and travel from ocean depths to mountaintops, via desert, swamp and rainforest. Flannery reveals how the earth's climate has changed, across millennia and decades, and how the slightest imbalance has had far-reaching, unexpected consequences. The weather - everything from hurricanes to heatwaves - cannot be understood in isolation.

With panoramic scope and limitless enthusiasm, Flannery shows how we have come to appreciate this history and contrasts our early primitive attempts at forecasting with our current knowledge of the forces that are shaping the future. And he combines a huge breadth of sources and new evidence to write with complete authority about what that future holds: as we continue to heat the planet, humanity and the entire natural world, face unprecedented dangers and challenges. Flannery makes them real - and he argues forcefully for the solutions that we all should be seeking now.

The Weather Makers transports us as we share Flannery's wonder at the sheer magnificence and diversity of nature, and grips and inspires us as he conjures up a vision of our past, present and future.

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Review:

'If you are not already addicted to Tim Flannery's writing, discover him now: this is his best book yet' -- Jared Diamond

'It would be hard to imagine a better or more important book' -- Bill Bryson

'This is a magnificent book; exciting, poetic, passionate' -- Redmond O'Hanlon

About the Author:

Tim Flannery is an internationally acclaimed writer, scientist and explorer. As a field zoologist he discovered and named more than thirty new species of mammals, including two tree-kangaroos. His pioneering work in New Guinea prompted Sir David Attenborough to describe him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone'.

He now lives in Adelaide where he is Director of the South Australian Museum and a Professor at the University of Adelaide. He is also chairman of the South Australian Premier's Science Council and Sustainability Roundtable; a director of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy; and the National Geographic Society's representative in Australasia. In April 2005 he was honoured as Australian Humanist of the Year.

Tim Flannery's many books include the award-winning international bestsellers The Future Eaters and Throwim Way Leg, and The Eternal Frontier. He has also edited and introduced many historical works, including The Birth of Sydney, The Diaries of William Buckley and The Explorers.

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