Fixing Climate: The Story of Climate Science - And How to Stop Global Warming

by Robert Kunzig, Wallace S. Broecker

With Broeker as his guide, award-winning science writer Robert Kunzig looks back at Earth's volatile climate history so as to shed light on the challenges ahead. Ice ages, planetary orbits, a giant 'conveyor belt' in the ocean ... it's a riveting story full of maverick thinkers, extraordinary discoveries and an urgent blueprint for action.Likening climate to a slumbering beast, ready to react to the smallest of prods, Broecker shows how assiduously we've been prodding it, by pumping 70 million tonnes of CO2 into the air each year. Fixing Climate explains why we need not just to reduce emissions but to start removing our carbon waste from our atmosphere. And in a thrilling last section of the book, we learn how this could become reality, using 'artificial trees' and underground storage.

Genres: Climate Change, Science

288 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Saskia · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am so disappointed. I don't know what I expected exactly but the book was just not for me.
The first half has dealt with the history of climate science. Afterwards the problems and possible solutions will be discussed. I liked that the chapters build on each other with each dealing with a single aspect.
In the end I didn't like the way everything was explained. Instead of some black and white pictures, info graphics would have been more useful. I guess, everyone should try one or two chapters and decide if the style fits you or not.

Edit: I guess this should be obvious but the book does not explain how it is possible to actually stop climate change. It shows pretty well that there is a lot of stuff we don't know or understand. Climate is a complex system.

[Henna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fairly interesting collection of the climate information, the main emphasis is definitely on the CO2 collection. Especially at the end, I felt like there was quite a strong approach for selling certain aspects for the "solution" of the climate change.