Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming: Everything You Need to Know to Converse Intelligently about Global Warming in Any Social Situation [Paperback]

Annette Saliken (Author), Martin G. Clarke (Author)

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Paperback: 196 pages
Publisher: iUniverse (May 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 059547053X
ISBN-13: 978-0595470532
Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 12.6 x 1.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 200 g

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"The classic martini of climate change books—a short, crisp, clear guide to the problem and its renewable-energy solutions." —David Suzuki

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Whether you need help sorting out facts from sensationalism, or you just want to carry on informed discussions about global warming, Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming provides you with the knowledge and confidence to draw your own conclusions and converse intelligently about this topic.

This guidebook explains the basics of global warming and alternative energy in clear, objective language. It provides straightforward answers to frequently asked questions, and clarifies common misconceptions. This book summarizes key points of scientific papers from the world's highest authorities on climate change, including the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It also explains the relationships between climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, natural processes and cycles, human activities, and fossil fuels. The chapters may be read individually or in sequence, serving as educational references that will help you interpret everything you see, hear, and read about global warming in the future.

This book also provides uplifting, optimistic information about potential solutions to global warming in our lifetime. It describes fascinating alternative energy technologies under development today, such as solar, wind, geothermal, microhydro, ocean, and bioenergy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cocktail Party, July 10 2008

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This review is from: Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming: Everything You Need to Know to Converse Intelligently about Global Warming in Any Social Situation (Paperback)

This book is a concise and intelligent study of the information and terms which surround this complex issue - global warming. The topic is explored and laid out for the reader without blame or bias in an easy to read format and furthermore, the book is organized so that one can quickly refer back to a particular topic or interesting fact. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is trying to navigate their way through the ever-growing and constant stream of opinions and discussions on global warming and climate change.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!, Sep 2 2008

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Just finished reading the Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming and really enjoyed the way the book is laid out and the fact that the language is really simple and to the point. Saliken manages to boil everything down to the basics and present the issue in a way that makes it easy to converse intelligently with anyone on the subject. There are many books on the subject of global warming and climate change, but most are either too academic and dense or they are not based on scientific fact but conjecture (such as those from the climate change denier camp), or they are really alarmist. This book manages to present the facts as we know them without editorial, and do it in a nice compact form.

You can read this book in a couple of days, and it is well worth it.

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