No Tomorrow (Paperback)

~ Philip Machanick (Author)
Key Phrases: Martin Truscott, New York, San Francisco (more...)

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Martin Truscott had been a troubled child, with an obsession with computer games. Now, he found himself driven to seek the truth. A debate about climate change had been raging in the press - yet it seemed implausible that so many scientists could be lying or deluded. But what if they were? What if the "sceptics" really were modernday Galileos? When a documentary appeared alleging just that, Martin was incensed because it was so poorly made; the mainstream scientists had little difficulty in picking it apart. Did this prove anything? No: only that the maker of the documentary did a poor job. What if the Nobel committee had blundered giving Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the 2007 Peace Prize? So he was determined to find out for himself - and make the real, definitive truth about climate change documentary. In this pursuit, he found out not only the truth about climate change, but the truth about himself ...

Product Details

• Paperback: 362 pages
• Publisher: RAMpage Research (April 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0980451019
• ISBN-13: 978-0980451016
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,691,138 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars No Tomorrow: Review, September 1, 2008

By	Geoffrey Turner (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

First I should mention that, although we live in different cities, I have come to know Philip Machanick reasonably well over the last 4-5 years by way of various things we have done together of up to a few days at a time.

No Tomorrow can be viewed from several different perspectives: It's a romantic novel; it's a fun book in various ways; it's a story of a young man's reconciliation with his dad; most of all, though, it's a searching examination of the science and pseudo-science related to global warming.

The author clearly did a significant amount of research into the views and supporting science behind both the proponents' and the sceptics' theories. Some of this is revealed as the main character, Martin Truscott, reviews the research and talks to the characters on both sides of the fence. For the purpose of the book, the researchers Truscott talks to are fictitious, but their theories, their institutions and much of the background are not.

I found it difficult to put this book down for much of the way through it. It challenges the reader to think about the important subject that inspired it. It gives an insight into the way science works and the fact that it isn't a dogmatic, unchanging truth, but rather evolves as more is revealed and learned.

No plot is perfect, and that's true of this one, but the defects seemed minor compared with the work as a whole. First novel it may be, but No Tomorrow is an excellent work by an author who is a thinker.

No Tomorrow is well worth a read -- highly recommended.