Journalist Ross Gelbspan’s new book, Boiling Point (out in late July from Basic Books), reveals how politicians, big oil and coal, the media, and. Revisiting the consensus on global warming (The Heat Is On, ), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gelbspan finds the US strangely at odds. But Ross Gelbspan is no slave to fashion. The beauty of his book Boiling Point is how it reminds us that scientific facts are inescapable, even.
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EPA report, removing all references to the dangerous impacts of climate change on the United States. The implication is that they are not only sell-outs, but laughingstocks in the eyes of mainstream science.
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Even more surprisingly, Gelbspan points a finger at both the media and environmental activists for unwittingly worsening the crisis.
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For example, in contrast to information in the book, Russia recently committed to ratifying the Kyoto protocol. The Little Ice Age. The memo cited a quote from Robert Watson, chair of the U.
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An excerpt from Boiling Point by Ross Gelbspan
The industry-driven campaign goes far beyond traditional public relations spin. Two months later, in his State of the Union address, Bush revealed his own petroleum-based hydrogen initiative. Clearly these governments would not be undertaking such massive and wrenching changes if they had any doubt about the climate crisis.
It would also expand the global economy and lead to a far wealthier and more peaceful world. It would create millions of jobs and raise living standards in poor countries whose populations are affected by climate-driven disease epidemics and whose borders are overrun by environmental refugees. There was an error while adding the following items. Prior to his involvement in the climate issue, Gelbspan worked as an editor and reporter at a number of newspapers, including The Philadelphia BulletinThe Washington Post and The Boston Globe.
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Revisiting the consensus on global warming The Heat Is On, Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist Gelbspan finds the US strangely at odds with a vast majority of both scientists and governments. ExxonMobil achieved an even greater success in directing Bush administration climate change diplomacy.
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When previous Bush administration efforts failed to discount and discard the document, the politically conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is partly funded by ExxonMobil, sued the White House Council on Environmental Quality to remove the National Assessment from circulation.
But at times, he adopts an apocalyptic tone-the first sentence of his first chapter contains the words, “global climate change is threatening to spiral out of control”-and that may limit this work to true gelbsspan.
It exhibits respect rather than reckless indifference to human and natural systems that are elaborately adapted to the prevailing climate—respect, that is, for life. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. But we should not expect panaceas. A study by lead authors Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and published in an obscure journal, Climate Research, concluded that the 20th century is neither the warmest century, nor the century with the most extreme weather, of the past 1, years.
Gelbspan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, offers no less than a call to arms in this treatise on how global warming is a threat and how it can be avoided. About this book Related titles. This excerpt traces what Gelbspan describes as a corrupt relationship between the Bush administration and the fossil-fuel industry. Media reporter, reviewer, producer, guest booker, blogger. An ex-member of the Fourth Estate, Gelbspan denounces it for inadequate coverage of global warming, and when covering it, for giving equal weight to the arguments of skeptical scientists.
Journalists, he says, goiling culpable because they are minimizing the story; activists, while well-meaning, are so busy trying to form alliances and make compromises that they lose sight of a problem that Gelbspan believes could ultimately compromise the planet.
The topic and the rapidly evolving political context boilong that the book may date relatively quickly. Global warming — Political aspects. He lays out three of the plans being discussed to attack the problem, as well as one of his own which focuses on changing energy subsidies from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources, funding the transfer of renewable energy sources to developing countries and greatly tightening emission standards.
Browse titles from Basic Books. But, apparently fearing a major backlash, it decided not to back such vocal contrarians as Christy and Lindzen.
Both researchers had previously contended that the recent warming was due, almost entirely, to solar variations — a finding long since disproved by peer-reviewed scientific studies.
Views Read Edit View history. Finally, he offers a concrete plan for averting a full-blown climate catastrophe. As of this month, countries have ratified or acceded pont the Kyoto Protocol.
Bythat share shrank to 22 percent — despite the advent of far more conclusive science, documenting human-caused voiling warming. Summary If left unchecked, climate change will ultimately swamp every other issue facing us today.
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