The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth – Review
This is a well-documented, in-depth look at human usually caused damage to the environment. It heralds as a wakeup call to humanity that the planet cannot bear such a burden (this burden being primarily CO2, but also incorporates extra man became chemicals and green-house gasses). The author starts the reader through the cosmic parts of the environment being effected, the account of our impact, and modern day environmental devastation. He also uses his best precise estimates to project future destruction if humanity remains on this modern course. He does end the text on a clear note however, allowing room for solutions that can be fully implemented on the individual, corporate, as well as legislative level. What I really liked about this book was the historical background, the acknowledgement of past climatologist’s mistakes and the counter arguments for the nay-sayers of today. The reason I was impacted by these three things, is that I feel it is truly important to be intellectually honest and deal with past mistakes, as well as engage the possible loopholes that are originally posed against global warming. I also appreciated the detail simply put into his projections of future devastation and how these were eventually reached. Where I commonly found the book a little absent was in overall readership. He has laid out his list of contents with truly amazing order and accuracy, yet when you enter the amount of the text, I commonly found myself quite frequently confused as to how one paragraph started to the other. Although this did detract somewhat from my overall ability to completely engage each chapter, it did not detract from the substance that I eventually took away and have benefited from. Overall I recommend this book, and I am happy to immediately know why the planet is finally getting colder in specific areas even though overall the planet is warming.