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Cool it

the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming

1st Vintage Books ed.

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An edition of Cool it (2007)

Cool it

the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming

1st Vintage Books ed.

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A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges.Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered--the Kyoto Protocol, for example--have a staggering potential cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, but, ultimately, will have little impact on the world's temperature. He suggests that rather than institutionalizing these programs to "cool" the earth's temperature 100 years from now, we should focus our resources on some of the world's most pressing immediate concerns, such as: fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS, and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply. And he considers why and how this debate has developed an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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English
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Climate change Climatic changes Economic aspects Economic aspects of Pollution Economic development Environmental aspects Environmental aspects of Economic development Environmental responsibility Global warming Globalization Government policy Nonfiction Pollution Science Klimaänderung Umweltpolitik Broeikaseffect Klimaatveranderingen Erwärmung <Meteorologie> Controversen Economic development, environmental aspects Global warming, government policy
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
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Cool it: the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming
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Table of Contents

Polar bears : today's canaries in the coal mine?
It's getting hotter : the short story
Global warming : our many worries
The politics of global warming
Conclusion : making our top priorities cool.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-243) and index.

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New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
363.738/74
Library of Congress
QC981.8.G56 L657 2008

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Pagination
xix, 252 p. ;
Number of pages
252

Edition Identifiers

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OL22543769M
ISBN 13
9780307386526
LCCN
2008276558
LibraryThing
2830854
Goodreads
2237701

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OL716950W

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