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- catalog abstract ""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 contends 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 recounts his maddening interactions with scientific councils, international governmental meetings, and business leaders. Still, despite the government's backpedaling on eco-promises, the media's laziness, and the fossil fuel company rhetoric, the transition to solar energy is coming, he argues"--From publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b12069103.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""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 contends 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 recounts his maddening interactions with scientific councils, international governmental meetings, and business leaders. Still, despite the government's backpedaling on eco-promises, the media's laziness, and the fossil fuel company rhetoric, the transition to solar energy is coming, he argues"--From publisher description.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The Early Warning -- The Price of Oil -- The Road to Rio -- Blown Cover -- Burned by Warming -- Excess of Loss -- A Mandate Delivered -- A Discernible Human Influence -- Cracks Appear in the Carbon Club -- A Crime Against Humanity -- The Day of the Atmosphere.".
- catalog extent "xiii, [342] p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0415931010".
- catalog identifier "0415931029 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "363.738/742 21".
- catalog subject "Fossil fuels Environmental aspects.".
- catalog subject "Global warming Government policy.".
- catalog subject "QC981.8.C5 L45 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Early Warning -- The Price of Oil -- The Road to Rio -- Blown Cover -- Burned by Warming -- Excess of Loss -- A Mandate Delivered -- A Discernible Human Influence -- Cracks Appear in the Carbon Club -- A Crime Against Humanity -- The Day of the Atmosphere.".
- catalog title "The carbon war : global warming and the end of the oil era / Jeremy Leggett.".
- catalog type "text".