The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials)
The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Science Essentials) – Review
I’m reviewing the Kindle version. The author’s style built this a tedious speaking experience. Each chapter appears to repeat/rehash prior material. Attempts to be conversational seem to ring false. In some places, it seems as if the author verbally dictated, rather than wrote, the text; it just doesn’t flow well. A editor’s touch appears to be missing. The form of the book: present, past, future is a little strange. Even while finally accepting the basic science of AGW, and most of the technical history presented in the book, I’m afraid that this book is not “the particularly compelling global warming book” that I was apparently hoping that it would be. To be cynical, it seems to be a book thrown simultaneously to capitalize on reader interest in one of the top science issues of the day.