Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming: Everything You Need to Know to Converse Intelligently About Global Warming in Any Social Situation [Paperback]

Annette Saliken (Author)

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Publication Date: May 23, 2008

Whether you need help sorting out facts from sensationalism, or you just wantto carry on informed discussions about global warming, Cocktail Party Guide toGlobal Warming provides you with the knowledge and confidence to draw yourown conclusions and converse intelligently about this topic.This guidebook explains the basics of global warming and alternative energy inclear, objective language. It provides straightforward answers to frequentlyasked questions, and clarifies common misconceptions. This book summarizeskey points of scientific papers from the world's highest authorities on climatechange, including the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC). It also explains the relationships between climate change,global warming, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, natural processes andcycles, human activities, and fossil fuels. The chapters may be read individuallyor in sequence, serving as educational references that will help you interpreteverything you see, hear, and read about global warming in the future.This book also provides uplifting, optimistic information about potential solutionsto global warming in our lifetime. It describes fascinating alternative energytechnologies under development today, such as solar, wind, geothermal, micro-hydro,ocean, and bioenergy.

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"Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming by Annette Saliken and Martin Clarke is the classic martini of climate change books - a short, crisp, clear guide to the problem and its renewable energy solutions" --Dr. David Suzuki

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"Smart and easy to read...Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming may well be the ultimate pocket guide to climate change. For anyone who wants to be part of the most important conversation going on today... you will love this book."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (May 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059547053X
• ISBN-13: 978-0595470532
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,799,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!, September 2, 2008

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This review is from: Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming: Everything You Need to Know to Converse Intelligently About Global Warming in Any Social Situation (Paperback)

Just finished reading the Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming and really enjoyed the way the book is laid out and the fact that the language is really simple and to the point. Saliken manages to boil everything down to the basics and present the issue in a way that makes it easy to converse intelligently with anyone on the subject. There are many books on the subject of global warming and climate change, but most are either too academic and dense or they are not based on scientific fact but conjecture (such as those from the climate change denier camp), or they are really alarmist. This book manages to present the facts as we know them without editorial, and do it in a nice compact form.

You can read this book in a couple of days, and it is well worth it.