"The Weather Makers"

Over the holidays I read Tim Flannery's new book, "The Weather Makers" - and I have to say, if you were only to read ONE environmentally-themed book in your life, this should be it.

Flannery writes engagingly, intelligently, and with the confidence of an author who knows his subject inside and out. With supporting research in biology, chemistry, physics, and history he pieces together the problem of Climate Change and the fate of humankind. Most importantly, he does not drown the reader in scientific jargon or the bleakness of fatalism: it is not too late to make a difference! Flannery then offers a list of inexpensive, every-day things each of us can do to reduce our greenhouse emissions by 70%, an amount that would - by most estimates - allow the Earth's climate to stabilize, keeping us humans around for a few more generations at least!