Handy pocket guide to climate change
Smart and easy to read, Annette Saliken's Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming (iUniverse, $16.95), may well be the ultimate pocket guide to climate change.
For anyone who wants to be part of the most important conversation going on today, this slim volume is required reading.
Whether you want to return a volley to the lout who claims the main source of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is cow patties, not fossil fuels, or you just want to have an informed conversation about global warming, you will love this book.
Since its debut a few weeks ago it has shot up Amazon.ca's bestseller list, snagged two publisher's awards and received a personal endorsement from David Suzuki.
The kudos from Suzuki, who hails it as "the classic martini of climate change books" hold special meaning for the author.
"He really knows his facts," said Saliken, a marketing and communications expert who did her MBA on global warming and alternative energy.
"I want people to feel confident to talk about climate change and global warming," she said.
Saliken pored over peer-reviewed scientific papers and took on the role of "translator" to distill mountains of complex information into "ordinary language for non-technical readers."
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This is a laugh:
"Rising Arctic/Antarctic temperatures: Average arctic temperatures have increased at almost twice the global average rate over the past hundred years. The polar regions are especially prone to global warming because of a so-called "feedback loop" caused by melting ice."
It is BS. Faster warming at the poles is a result of the physics of the greenhouse effect and has nothing to do with melting ice.
Of course, there is that akward detail about how of most of Antarctica is cooling...
I guess that tells you how good Suzuki's "scientific review" is.
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