The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming
Why has the world been unable to address global warming? Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr., says it's not the fault of those who reject the Kyoto Protocol, but those who support it, and the magical thinking that the agreement represents. In The Climate Fix, Pielke offers a way to repair climate policy, shifting the debate away from meaningless targets and toward a revolution in how the world's economy is powered, while de-fanging the venomous politics surrounding the crisis. The debate on global warming has lost none of its power to polarize and provoke in a haze of partisan vitriol. The Climate Fix will bring something new to the discussions: a commonsense perspective and practical actions better than any offered so far.
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The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming
Why has the world been unable to address global warming? Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr., says it's not the fault of those who reject the Kyoto Protocol, but those who support it, and the magical thinking that the agreement represents. In The Climate Fix, Pielke offers a way to repair climate policy, shifting the debate away from meaningless targets and toward a revolution in how the world's economy is powered, while de-fanging the venomous politics surrounding the crisis. The debate on global warming has lost none of its power to polarize and provoke in a haze of partisan vitriol. The Climate Fix will bring something new to the discussions: a commonsense perspective and practical actions better than any offered so far.
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The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming

The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming

by Roger Pielke
The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming

The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming

by Roger Pielke

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Overview

Why has the world been unable to address global warming? Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr., says it's not the fault of those who reject the Kyoto Protocol, but those who support it, and the magical thinking that the agreement represents. In The Climate Fix, Pielke offers a way to repair climate policy, shifting the debate away from meaningless targets and toward a revolution in how the world's economy is powered, while de-fanging the venomous politics surrounding the crisis. The debate on global warming has lost none of its power to polarize and provoke in a haze of partisan vitriol. The Climate Fix will bring something new to the discussions: a commonsense perspective and practical actions better than any offered so far.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465022687
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 09/28/2010
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 306,855
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Roger Pielke, Jr., is a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado. The author of The Honest Broker, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Dinner Table Climate Science for Commonsense Climate Policy 1

2 What We Know for Sure, but Just Ain't So 35

3 Decarbonization of the Global Economy 61

4 Decarbonization Policies Around the World 81

5 Technological Fixes and Backstops 117

6 How Climate Policy Went Off Course and the First Steps Back in the Right Direction 143

7 Disasters, Death, and Destruction 161

8 The Politicization of Climate Science 191

9 Obliquity, Innovation, and a Pragmatic Future for Climate Policy 217

Acknowledgments 239

Notes 243

Index 267

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