A punchy & informative book which presents the facts of & dissects the arguments on man-made climate change. One of the authors, David King was the UK government's Chief Scientific Advisor for 7 years so knows a thing or two about the topic & that familiarity & depth of knowledge is obvious, even if just from the amount of evidence provided within the references.
What made me appreciate the book even more though was the acknowledgment that man-made climate change is here to stay for the foreseeable future & that sensible measures must be taken to limit its damage & to reduce CO2 emissions to prevent the effects from getting far worse. Furthermore these measures can be carried out using current technologies which needn't cause the bankruptcy of any country that implements them.
I found this argument a refreshing message from the usual doom-mongers & the refusenik stance of various Western countries mostly responsible for the problem which neatly exposes the reasons for a lack of progress in tackling this problem for the lie that it is.
Negatives in the book were that some of the chapters were necessarily statistic heavy, which doesn't (usually, for most people) make for the best read.
4/5
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