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Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
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Author
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Chris Mooney.
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Publisher
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Mariner
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Format
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paperback
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7.9
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5.3
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ISBN
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9780156033664
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Pages/Publication Date
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400/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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90939
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Are hurricanes increasing in ferocity and frequency because of global warming? In the wake of Katrina, science journalist Chris Mooney follows the careers of top meteorologists on either side of this hot-button issue through the 2005–06 hurricane season, tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weather itself have skewed and amplified what was already an intense scientific debate. Mooney—the author of The Republican War on Science and also a native of New Orleans—delves into the consequences of the great inconvenient truth of our day: are we responsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than they already were? "Of course, it's impossible to write a book like this without tackling the whole idea of global warming as myth, but Mooney doesn't get bogged down in the politics of that issue. He has different questions to answer: Are the increasingly intense hurricanes of recent years our fault, and if they are, what can we do to change the pattern before it's too late?... This is certainly one of the most thought-provoking and accessible accounts of climate change to appear since Katrina."—Booklist
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