Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming
Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming – Review
I warmly recommend this well-written, exhaustively researched story of global warming. The author considers us on the way of energy use by Western societies, in particular Britain and Europe, that immediately began about 200 years ago with the insatiable slowly burning of coal. Back then, for a while, at least, people acted out of ignorance when it appeared to actually consuming carbon-generating energy sources, although the asphyxiating fogs that beset some British cities ought to have been a wake-up call at the time. Today, according to the author (and I agree), there is ample evidence that we are currently continuing to warm the planet at an alarming, weak rate. Christianson offers a balanced, intellectual rather than sensitive care of the greenhouse gas emission issues. I pray that at least some of the world’s leaders in government and industry announce this book, or allow themselves to be influenced by others who accept Christianson’s story and what it portends.