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Global Warming transfixes governments and their people as they set to embark on a multi-million dollar attempt to stop the planet frying. Today when it comes to climate change, history is a closed book. Global warming has become the mother of all scares, transfixing governments and their people. We are set to embark on a multimillion dollar attempt to stop the planet frying. Since the disaster of Copenhagen, the plot has thickened immeasurably. The Copenhagen agenda will finally come to rest in November 2010 in Cancun, Mexico. Booker and North examine all the political manoeuvrings, the scientific developments, the negotiations, the noises off. Global warming has developed a life of its own and no one seems to have the wherewithal to kill it off.

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As a noted commentator on the political, social and psychological history of our time, Christopher Booker has in recent years, through his weekly Sunday Telegraph column, become the most conspicuous 'global warming sceptic' in the British press. He has based his view on exhaustive research into the scientific evidence for and against the theory of 'man-made climate change'. His professional interest in this issue grew out of research for his previous book Scared To Death, co-written with Dr Richard North, a study of the 'scare phenomenon' which has been such a prominent feature of Western life in recent decades. Booker's other recent books have included The Seven Basic Plots, a best-selling analysis of why we tell stories which has established itself as a standard text (also published by Continuum). He has been an author and journalist for nearly 50 years, and was the founding editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye.

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