Customer Reviews
Come on... - By: Mr. Disgruntled, 28 Oct 2008 
For crying out loud, why don't we all open our mouths & swallow whatever rot the 'IPCC' feed us. There are so many flaws with this book that can only be seen as propoganda aimed at people who cannot think for themselves. Yes, global warming is almost certainly occurring but it has been blown out of all proportion & all to benefit propositions made by the government. (Carbon taxes to name but one, however that's a whole different kettle of fish.) Look at the End-Permian extinction. An approximated risein temperature of 5 degrees Celcius is believed to have wiped out the vast majority of terrestrial & marine life. Do you really think this took a century?! Evidence pointing to the Permo-Triassic extinction has been locked awayin stratigraphy - the thickness of which is substantianly more than could be depositedin a century! Think between 100,000 to 300,000 years worth.
So come on Mark Lynas, 6 degrees celciusin a century is hugely arrogant because we are so insignificant regarding global surface processes. If you were to look at recent scientific papers, you might be surprised to find that climatologists & geologists predict a 0.8 degree risein temperature over the next century.
File this one under fantasy.
This book could save your life - By: B. W. Labey, 06 Oct 2008 
This is the best book on the subject I have ever read & I feel it should be mandatory for all school children over 12 years old. I have been following the global warming debate for over 20 years now (both as an environmentalist & former journalist) from its early days when there were a few very worried scientists getting trashed by the politicians to protect big business, to now when we have thousands of very worried leading scientists & terrified experts of the highest calibre getting trashed by politicians to protect big business. This book is vital & I only wish it could have appeared ten years ago when we still had a chance of making a real difference. The science that Lynas reviews is the best available to us & he communicates difficult subject matter very clearly & with real skill. For such a dry subject (no pun intended) the book is actually quite gripping but it doesn't fall into the easy trap of trivialising or sensationalising the raw data. Let's face it, these are terrifying enough on their own. Read it, it could save your life.
Lynas paints a possible apocalyptic future for us all - By: Daniel Storey, 01 Oct 2008 
Mark Lynas had spent monthsin libraries reading & taking notes about future global weather changes from scientific journals & from his studies he has put together this book.
The book explains to the reader what would happen to the planet if it were to get six degrees hotter over the next 100 years.
Each chapter explains what would happen to world as it got 1 degree hotter.
Chapter 1 explains what would happen if the planet got one degree hotter & chapter 6 finishes by explaining what would happen if the planet got six degrees hotter.
This book is not easy to digest as it paints a very apocalyptic future for us humans should climate change not be halted.
In the final chapter Mark explains how we can prevent this scenario ever happening.
A very different book from Al Gore's inconvient truthin a sense that this book looks at what could happen rather than what is happening now.
If the subject global warming interests you than this book is well worth a read & will give you a great insightin future life on earth if we fail to act now.
'business as usual' .... I don't think so. - By: phil mars, 22 Jul 2008 no politition could read this book & stayin office with 'business as usual' without beingin total denial. not sensationalin it's presentation, but leaves little to the imagination. Surely we've had it, haven't we? Don't leave too much money to your children - it will be of little use.
BAFFLED - By: Mrs. Susan E. Wells, 17 Jun 2008 One thing baffles me about this book by an evangelical warmista - & I wish Lynas would answer. He has not addressed one simple proven fact... thatin the last 10 years the globe has been cooling quite markedly at a time when carbon emissions have never been higher. How does he square this with his alarmist views ? The fact is that a very great many reputable scientists the world over question whether anything we do has any effect on our climate - though clearly we pollute our environment & destroy the habitat for other creatures; but that is a different issue. The globe has warmed & cooled, warmed & cooled, for many billions of years & our climate has changed & will continue to change regardless of these tiny specks called humans.
Global warming was until around 2,000, since when the globe has been cooling. Will it warm up again ? Who knows ? There are only computer projections & we know those cannot not even get the long range weather forecast right for the British Isles
