Examines the greenhouse effect against the background of natural climatic processes. Predicts malaria in London and predicts Greece may become a desert.
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From Library Journal:
Another entry in publishers' Earth Day sweepstakes. This book will add little of substance to the debate over the causes, extent, and consequences of a potential global warming. Covering roughly the same ground as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert H. Boyle's Dead Heat ( LJ 4/15/90) and Francesca Lyman and others' The Greenhouse Trap ( LJ 4/15/90), this is less balanced and often dogmatic. Gribbin, an astrophysicist turned science writer, is convinced that the world is heading rapidly towards an eco-catastrophe, but his case is marred by imprecise language, incomplete explanations, arbitrary dating, and nonexistent, or incomplete, references. His book is not recommended.
-Richard Shotwell, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass.
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- PublisherGrove
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0593017951
- ISBN 13 9780593017951
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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