Product Description: In Boiling Point, Ross Gelbspan argues that, unchecked, climate change will swamp every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions--denial and delay--has now grown into a crime against humanity...read more

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers an incisive exposé of the forces and factors that continue to perpetuate the global warming crisis, explaining how the fossil fuel industry is shaping the Bush administration's energy and climate policies, and presents his own definitive prescription for avoiding climatic catatrophe and promoting lasting change.

Product Description: For an increasing number of people, global warming is not an academic and scientific debate, but a matter of survival. As the planet warms at a rate of four degrees Fahrenheit per century, violent storms are increasing in frequency, icebergs are melting, sea level is rising, species are losing their habitats, and temperature records are being broken...read more

Product Description: In the 60s, Silent Spring forced us to pay attention to the problem with pesticides. The 70s galvanized the nation to conserve. In the 90s our communities came together to "reduce, reuse, and recycle." And now, the first decade of the new millennium will focus our attention on our most urgent environmental challenge yet: global warming and the potential for irreversible climate change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book not only brings home the imminence of climate change but also examines the campaign of deception by big coal and big oil that is keeping the issue off the public agenda. It examines the various arenas in which the battle for control of the issue is being fought--a battle with surprising political alliances and relentless obstructionism...read more

Argues that the oil and coal industries are downplaying the effect of global warming and offers a look at the possible consequences on the planet if current scientific findings are ignored (view table of contents)

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