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Summary: The Heat is On
Review: An excellent updated companion book by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist to "The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth"[1991], by Jonathan Weiner, another Pulitzer Prize winning author.Gelbspan is familiar with the halls of Washington & business policy and offers his readers an inside view of the mostly behind-the-scenes struggle over power and policy decision making with regard to the Global Climate Crisis. I recommend reading this book after Weiner's, because some scientific concepts and technical jargon may not be immediately recognizable by the average reader.
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Summary: The Heat is On
Review: An excellent updated companion book by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist to "The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth"[1991], by Jonathan Weiner, another Pulitzer Prize winning author. Gelbspan is familiar with the halls of Washington & business policy and offers his readers an inside view of the mostly behind-the-scenes struggle over power and policy decision making with regard to the Global Climate Crisis. I recommend reading this book after Weiner's, because some scientific concepts and technical jargon may not be immediately recognizable by the average reader.
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Summary: Gelbspan offers insight into science & politics of warming
Review: Having just read The Heat Is On and interviewed both Ross Gelbspan and Robert Balling for EV World, I came away with an appreciation of both the complexity of the issue, but also the politics underlying it. While Gelbspan admits he's no climatologist, he's interviewed numerous professionals in the field, and read the works of the leading skeptics, including Balling who would have you believe that this is a non-issue and even if it were an issue, we can't do anything about it. Ross not only thinks we can do something about it, but he's also spent the last year working with others to develop a plan to begin the gradual transition away from fossil fuels to sustainable technologies, one which won't jeopardize the global economy or the environment. EV World features RealAudio interviews with both Gelbspan and Balling.
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Summary: A Pulitzer-prizewinning author excels in this one!
Review: Minority viewpoints among U.S. scientists have too much influence on policy, Gelbspan reports. He provides evidence that other countries have invested in alternative energy sources, i.e. geothermal, solar, and wind energy, which have helped to reduce pollution. Exposes industry front groups, e.g. "Information Council on the Environment" that give the appearance of uncertainty within the scientific community.
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