Science and Inquiry discussion

For December 2019, we will be reading The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells.

Please use this thread to post questions, comments, and reviews, at any time.

This book was difficult to slog through. Even so, it was interesting read and provided me one extreme perspective as a basis for what I'd like to see in the next climate change book I read. Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Kailey wrote: "This book was difficult to slog through. Even so, it was interesting read and provided me one extreme perspective as a basis for what I'd like to see in the next climate change book I read. Here's ..."

Excellent review & linked articles. I also like solutions rather than just doom & gloom. It's unproductive whining. I'll skip reading this book.

I loved this book--it is excellent.

This tidbit really made me think: Mining the Bitcoin cryptocurrency now produces as much carbon dioxide each year as a million transatlantic flights!

Here is my review.

I remember that little tidbit. Also:

"Every year, the average American emits enough carbon to melt 10,000 tons of ice in the Antarctic ice sheets—enough to add 10,000 cubic meters of water to the ocean. Every minute, each of us adds five gallons."

This was a powerful book. Here is my review.

I read the book in September.

"It is worse--much worse--than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairytale." and this: “We have done as much damage to the fate of the planet and its ability to sustain human life and civilisation since Al Gore published his first book on climate than in all the centuries – all the millennia – that came before.”

A powerful book. I think it's better than Water Will Come, which only covers a single aspect of the climate change and to me, too US focused.

My review

I was very disappointed by this book, and I'm someone who believes that climate change is a global problem. I explained my reaction in my review:

Www.goodreads.com/review/show/3261791767

I really enjoyed this book. It was very powerful and addressed things that I had never thought of before.