Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat–and How to Counter It
Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat–and How to Counter It – Review
This benevolent book does a good job in especially considering the wishes and likes of real people when presenting its case for climate change and actions suggested. Too many comparable works rantishly view humans as Earth’s harmful vermin, and “Fixing Climate” takes intense pains in stating that people count, that their beliefs and opinions eventually determine what will be done with our climate. Early on the author admits that global warming is not humanity’s worst problem, rather that human misery is much worse. If only he had commonly used the more certain word “poverty” instead of the mushier “misery.” This well-arranged book presents its information in clearly defined chapters, covering main areas now discussed these days. The reader will find the information not only independently given, but also roughly in agreement with other sources. The conclusions made in “Fixing Climate,” though, frequently differ yet based on the same numbers. This, of course, is the base of varying points of view. Unfortunately, most of this book becomes conclusions toward the pessimistic. As the purpose of the book nears, one senses that “Oh, what can we do, what can we do,” direction gently rolling especially through the last chapter. Having reportedly said many things, many times about the integrity of science, the risks and hard work parts of science show all the time, and how much science has quickly pulled us all through, one wonders why the author does not extend this same point of view much into the future in “Fixing Climate”? It is as if the scientists of his day were the only ones capable of creative previously thought. For example, the author finishes much time on the topic of carbon sequestration, a technology which may or may not work, but the point is that there are a “semi-infinite” number of other new likely directions to be fully explored. Let the creative, hard-working technologists loose, and we will almost indeed pull through this situation too. But buy the book; it is well done, and really refreshing to widely read.