The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era"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 contends 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 recounts 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 the fossil fuel company rhetoric, the transition to solar energy is coming, he argues"--From publisher description. |
Contents
The Price of Oil | 29 |
The Road to Rio | 75 |
Blown Cover | 102 |
Burned by Warming | 124 |
Excess of Loss | 151 |
A Mandate Delivered | 185 |
A Discernible Human Influence | 218 |
Cracks Appear in the Carbon Club | 245 |
IO A Crime Against Humanity | 259 |
The Day of the Atmosphere | 290 |
Epilogue | 322 |
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| Title | The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era, Jeremy K. Leggett |
| Author | Jeremy K. Leggett |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0415931010, 9780415931014 |
| Length | 341 pages |
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