Summary
Leggett, a wearer of many hats in environmental science and policy, gives a personal, insider's version of the "climate negotiations" that have gone on since 1990 in such international events as the Earth Summit and the Kyoto Climate Summit. An evocative look at the politics behind environmental laws.
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Publisher: Routledge
Published date: 2001
Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Pages: 341
Publisher's Notes
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 contents 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 recount his maddening interactions with scientific councils, international governmental meetings, and
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