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Climate Fix What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You about Global Warming

ISBN-10: 0465020526

ISBN-13: 9780465020522

Edition: 2010

Authors: Roger A. Pielke

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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. InThe 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 Fixwill bring something new to the discussions: a commonsense perspective and practical…    
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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 9/28/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Roberta Brandes Gratzis an award-winning journalist, urban critic, and author of the acclaimed bookThe Living City. Her articles have appeared in theWall Street Journal,New York Times Magazine,The Nation,Tikkun,Planning Magazine, and theDaily News, among others. She lives in New York City.Roger Pielke, Jr., is a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado. The author ofThe Honest Broker, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Preface
Dinner Table Climate Science for Commonsense Climate Policy
What We Know for Sure, but Just Ain't So
Decarbonization of the Global Economy
Decarbonization Policies Around the World
Technological Fixes and Backstops
How Climate Policy Went Off Course and the First Steps Back in the Right Direction
Disasters, Death, and Destruction
The Politicization of Climate Science
Obliquity, Innovation, and a Pragmatic Future for Climate Policy
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index