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
Combine one coauthor who is the world’s leading expert on climate change with a skilled science journalist and you get a riveting biography of Wallace S. Broecker that reads like a National Book Award novel. The science is a bonus, but, more than that – it is, I think, the best book on the issue of climate change. One of the world’s greatest possibly living geoscientists, Wally Broecker, weaves an historical chronicle of earth’s open cycles with the recent history of humans that are, according to the Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University, poking the beast by successfully combining mass use of fossil fuels with heavy deforestation on earth. And Broecker warns that international society is at a crossroads where great instability in climate, sea levels and survival of species endangers future generations. If the geological past is prologue, Fixing Climate may be presient unless we pay attention to the author’s solutions to tame the beast.