<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-pagination: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>In <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Climate War,</I> Eric Pooley-deputy editor of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Bloomberg BusinessWeek</I>-does for global warming what Bob Woodward did for presidents and Lawrence Wright did for terrorists. In this epic tale of an American civil war, Pooley takes us behind the scenes and into the hearts and minds of the most important players in the struggle to cap global warming pollution-a fight in which trillions of dollars and the fate of the planet are at stake.</FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-pagination: none"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>Why has it been so hard for America to come to grips with climate change? Why do so many people believe it isn't really happening? As President Obama's science advisor John Holdren has said, "We're driving in a car with bad brakes in a fog and heading for a cliff. We know for sure that cliff is out there. We just don't know exactly where it is. Prudence would suggest that we should start putting on the brakes." But powerful interests are threatened by the carbon cap that would speed the transition to a clean energy economy, and their agents have worked successfully to deny the problem and delay the solutions.</FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; mso-pagination: none"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>To write this book, Pooley, the former managing editor of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Fortune</I> and chief political correspondent for <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Time,</I> spent three years embedded with an extraordinary cast of characters: from the flamboyant head of one of the nation's largest coal-burning energy companies to the driven environmental leader who made common cause with him, from leading scientists warning of impending catastrophe to professional skeptics disputing almost every aspect of climate science, from radical activists chaining themselves to bulldozers to powerful lobbyists, media gurus, and advisors in Obama's West Wing-and, to top it off, unprecedented access to former Vice President Al Gore and his team of climate activists.</FONT></FONT></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs

Author: Pooley, Eric
Publisher: Hyperion
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: The Climate War
Pages: 00496 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2010-06-08
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781401395988
Category: Science : Environmental Science