The Parrot and the Igloo (eBook)

Climate and the Science of Denial

David Lipsky (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
496 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-86671-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A New York Times Editors ChoiceNamed a Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune, and EcoLit BooksA USA Today Must-Read Summer Book"e;David Lipsky spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment."e; Zo Schlanger, New York Times Book ReviewThe New York Times best-selling author explores how anti-science became so virulent in American lifethrough a history of climate denial and its consequences.In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct one) to the other.With narrative sweep and a superb eye for character, Lipsky unfolds the dramatic narrative of the long, strange march of climate science. The story begins with a tale of three inventorsThomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Teslawho made our technological world, not knowing what they had set into motion. Then there are the scientists who sounded the alarm once they identified carbon dioxide as the culprit of our warming planet. And we meet the hucksters, zealots, and crackpots who lied about that science and misled the public in ever more outrageous ways. Lipsky masterfully traces the evolution of climate denial, exposing how it grew out of early efforts to build a network of untruth about products like aspirin and cigarettes.Featuring an indelible cast of heroes and villains, mavericks and swindlers, The Parrot and the Igloo delivers a real-life tragicomedyone that captures the extraordinary dance of science, money, and the American character.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.7.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: American • Capitalism • Carbon dioxide • Change • Deniers • Environmental history • Expertise • Fossil Fuels • global warming • intentors • Oil • Petroleum industry • scientists • untruths
• ISBN-10: 0-393-86671-8 / 0393866718
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-86671-1 / 9780393866711