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Author: Stephen H. Schneider
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Imprint: National Geographic Society
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.508kg
ISBN: 9781426205408
ISBN 10: 1426205406
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 03 November 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
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Reviews
Science As A Contact Sport unfolds the incredible true story of the struggle to understand the science and focus the world s attention on the climate crisis. I have worked with Steve Schneider on the scientific and policy aspects of climate change for decades, and find him adept at bringing scientific clarity to this critical issue--explaining its many facets to concerned policymakers and the public. -Al Gore Why haven t we halted global warming in the decades since it became recognized as a major threat to human well-being? What should we do to halt it now? In this crystal-clear, moving, funny book, Stephen Schneider makes a highly complex subject understandable. - Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Collapse Stephen Schneider is masterful at translating enormously complex scientific principles into a language that we can all comprehend. Robert Redford Give Stephen Schneider points for prescience...The ominous warnings that he and other climatologists sounded...are coming truesooner.... Newsweek.com
Science As A Contact Sport unfolds the incredible true story of the struggle to understand the science and focus the world's attention on the climate crisis. I have worked with Steve Schneider on the scientific and policy aspects of climate change for decades, and find him adept at bringing scientific clarity to this critical issue--explaining its many facets to concerned policymakers and the public. -Al Gore Why haven't we halted global warming in the decades since it became recognized as a major threat to human well-being? What should we do to halt it now? In this crystal-clear, moving, funny book, Stephen Schneider makes a highly complex subject understandable. - Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Collapse Stephen Schneider is masterful at translating enormously complex scientific principles into a language that we can all comprehend. --Robert Redford Give Stephen Schneider points for prescience...The ominous warnings that he and other climatologists sounded...are coming true sooner.... -Newsweek.com
Author Information
Stephen H. Schneider, PhD, winner of a MacArthur ""genius grant,"" also won a joint Nobel Prize in 2007 with his colleagues on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has been an expert adviser to the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and both Bush administrations.
