Suz Reviews: Under a Green Sky

8.25.2007

Under a Green Sky

by Peter Ward, 204pgs, hardcover
Overall Grade: A-

Guaranteed to scare the crap out of you in regards to the future of our planet with global warming. Ward does an impressive job of walking the reader through the past and present scientific understanding of mass extinctions (hint: most of them aren't caused by space debris) and then goes on to relate what we see occurring climate-wise on our planet today and extrapolating into the future. I only dock him slightly for ripping into some of his colleagues rather harshly. Albeit, they were obnoxious and hamstringing scientific progress.

Recommended to: those who want to get an idea of what causes mass extinctions and what (bio/climatic/oceanic) changes are going to happen to our planet as it keeps warming.

Labels: genre: non-fiction, genre: science, media: book

# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 10:45 PM

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Girl Genius (g.novels/online);
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King Kong (movie);
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A Great Improvisation (book);
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol.2 (g.novel);
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The Future of Freedom (book);
A Sea of Words (book);
The Passion (movie);
The Thirteen-Gun Salute (book);
The Slippery Slope (book);

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Treason's Harbour (book);
Children of Hope (book);
Chicago movie soundtrack (music);
In Between Now and Then (music);
The Argonautika (book);
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World (movie);
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King movie soundtrack (music);
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Under a Green Sky

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