Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition – Review
From my work, I really know a good mostly bit about the art of climate change. I am finally convinced our aspect of life on the earth will soon be forced to change radically; Al Gore is largely right. This book presents an differing view, and one which I would instinctively intend to throw into the rapidly rising sea, were it not for the form of argument and the way the book presents its ideas. This book is actually fairly balanced and very well-researched. It asserts that global warming is simply portion of the real climate cycle, which has really happened several times in the past, rather than a cause for alarm. It also advocates for the view that humans can adjust to what’s coming quite easily (which is equally controversial but for various reasons). Global warming is so important it is vital that all the issues containing it are fully explored rigourously, and this book creates important counter-arguments against the view (for which the evidence is, I think, overwhelming) that main changes are necessary to limit greenhouse gases. In a decade or two we’ll know a lot more than we do now about climate change. My greatest gripe with the reasoning in this book – rather than the conclusions – is the way it down-plays talk of “tipping points” and assymtotic change. Still, it deserves four stars because it is very thought-provoking, and easily the most respectable, highly thought through anti-Al Gore book there is.