The Heat Is on: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription

Ross Gelbspan

Perseus Books Group, 1998 - Nature - 278 pages

This book not only brings home the imminence of climate change but also examines the campaign of deception by big coal and big oil that is keeping the issue off the public agenda. It examines the various arenas in which the battle for control of the issue is being fought--a battle with surprising political alliances and relentless obstructionism. The story provides an ominous foretaste of the gathering threat of political chaos and totalitarianism. And it concludes by outlining a transistion to the future that contains, at least, the possibility of continuity for our organized civilization, and, at best, a vast increase in the stability, equity, and wealth of the global economy.

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Review: The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription

User Review  - Carol Ryan - Goodreads

My complaint about this book, purchased in August 2012, is that it's so out-of-date. The cover says it is an 'updated edition' but that turned out to be circa 1998. Here is the best case I can think ...

Review: The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription

User Review  - Charlie George - Goodreads

Even though the science reporting is no longer up to date, this book did a fair and impartial job of exposing the errors and weaknesses of global warming skeptics, back when the issue was still a ...

About the author

Ross Gelbspan has been an editor and reporter at The Village Voice, and The Washington Post. He covered the U.N. Conference on the Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998. As special projects editor of The Boston Globe, he conceived, directed and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Heat Is on: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription
• Author: Ross Gelbspan
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group, 1998
• ISBN: 0738200255, 9780738200255
• Length: 278 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Weather; Science / Earth Sciences / General; Science / Environmental Science