Cartoon Guide to the Environment

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Summary: Serving the GW Conservative Agenda
Review: Great disappointment... particularly on Global Warming. The author should drop the cheap quasi-scientific bubbles of the conservative anti-GW establishment and go read some real science. Less science should not "balance" good science merely to serve petty political correctness. I recommend to the author attention to the frequent publications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

1 star for the cartoon work.

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Summary: For kids AND adults
Review: Kids will tend to ignore this book because it is too serious for a comic book and they will believe it is a klutzy attempt by adults to sneak up on kids with something educational. They are mistaken. Adults may, with a glance, dismiss this book as being for kids. They should know better. It is a systematic approach using pictures and limited captions to explain the basics of environmental science. It also uses Gonick's humor, sometimes-- ahem-- mature humor, and charming cartoonery.

Not as good perhaps as some of Gonick's other works-- due to limitations posed by a difficult topic for him to do-- it is still pure Gonick and worth the money and worth keeping (or giving to a kid or adult).

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Summary: help the environment please
Review: this is a good guide to the environment. the cartoons are very well drawn. i do have to agree with the other writer in the fact that it doesn't deal with any issues today that are killing the earth. it should focus more on the effects of global warming, destruction of our rain forests, killing off of our animals and plants, and the new technologies we have.

other than that, its a good book.

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Summary: Great book to teach science!
Review: This is a great book with which to teach science. It gets and keeps the attention of teenagers who have the attention span of a gnat. Each chapter is a great overview and summation of a unit that I teach at some time during the year.