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FIRE AND FLOOD - EUGENE LINDEN GEBUNDEN

The definitive history of the modern climate change era  from an award-winning writer who has
been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty yearsIn 1979  President Jimmy Carter was
presented with the findings of scientists who had been investigating whether human activities
might change the climate in harmful ways. A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is
too late  their report said. They were right -- but no one was listening. Four decades later 
we are haunted by the consequences of this inattention  and the years of complacency 
obfuscation and denialism that followed. Today  the staggering scale and scope of what we have
done to the planet is impossible to ignore: the seasons of fire and flood have crossed into
plain view. Fire and Flood is a comprehensive  compulsively readable history of climate change
from veteran environmental journalist Eugene Linden. Linden retells the story of the modern
climate change era decade by decade  tracking the progress of four ticking clocks: first  the
reality of climate change itself  second  advances in scientific understanding  third  the
spread of public awareness  and fourth  the business and finance response. Like no previous
writer  Linden has drawn together the elements of the biggest story in the world  in a book
that it is gripping as history  as economic investigation  and as scientific thriller.

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