Excessive burning of oil, gas, and coal is raising our planet's thermostat to unacceptable levels-a problem which as already resulted in increased natural catastrophes: storms, floods, droughts, and fire. Yet big oil companies have repeatedly hijacked efforts to slow global carbon emissions. "The Carbon War" is a major call-to-arms for the safety of our planet. Throughout the last decade, Jeremy Leggett, a distinguished scientist at Oxford University and former director for Green peace, has worked doggedly to alert human kind to the threat of ecological catastrophe, He contents that the main enemies-Arab countries, the United States government, oil companies, and automobile manufacturers-have used junk science, an army of lobbyists, and outright lies to ensure that their profits stayed safer than the planet's future. With the grace of a novelist and the precision of a scientist, Leggett recount his maddening interactions with scientific councils, international governmental meetings, and business leaders. Still, despite the government's backpedaling on eco-promises, the media's laziness, and fossil fuel company rhetoric, the transition to solar energy is coming, he argues. Called the "best book yet about the politics of global worming" by John Gribbin the "London Sunday Times," "The Carbon War" is a riveting read and a critical contribution to the fight for sustainable energy.
| ISBN | 0415931029 | | Pages | 360 | | ISBN13 | 9780415931021
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 327 | | Imprint | Routledge | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 30 Apr 2001 | | Width (mm) | 126 | | Library of Congress | 2001018158 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY | 363.738742 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Prologue | | |
| | | Acknowledgements | | |
| | | Abbreviations | | |
| 1 | | The Early Warning | | 1 |
| 2 | | The Price of Oil | | 29 |
| 3 | | The Road to Rio | | 75 |
| 4 | | Blown Cover | | 102 |
| 5 | | Burned by Warming | | 124 |
| 6 | | Excess of Loss | | 151 |
| 7 | | A Mandate Delivered | | 185 |
| 8 | | A Discernible Human Influence | | 218 |
| 9 | | Cracks Appear in the Carbon Club | | 245 |
| 10 | | A Crime Against Humanity | | 259 |
| 11 | | The Day of the Atmosphere | | 290 |
| | | Epilogue | | 311 |
| | | Index | | 333 |
"A racy account of a key time for the environmental movement, when the battle between big-time, carbon-belching corporations and adamant greens was at its hottest . . . powerful and highly readable". -- New Scientist
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