num_pages: 304
description: Its been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration cant we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases deforestation and catastrophic warming trends? Why are we still addicted to fossil fuels? Have we all just been fiddling for 40 years as the world burns around us?Schneider part of the Nobel Prizewinning team that shared the accolade with Al Gore in 2007 had a front-row seat at this unfolding environmental meltdown. Piecing together events like a detective story Schneider reveals that as expert consensus grew well-informed activists warned of dangerous changes no one knew how to predict preciselyand special interests seized on that very uncertainty to block any effective response. He persuasively outlines a plan to avert the building threat and develop a positive practical policy that will bring climate change back under our control help the economy with a new generation of green energy jobs and productivity and reduce the dependence on unreliable exporters of oiland thus ensure a future for ourselves and our planet thats as rich with promise as our past.
language: English
title: Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
publisher: National Geographic