| NOW OR NEVER Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future Tim Flannery David Suzuki (Fwd.) New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-8021-4898-1 | ||||
| ISBN-10 ? | 167p. | HC/SF | $18.00 | |
| Page 3: | "This is hardly a moral definition this, or indeed — in light of the second law of thermodynamics — a feasible one." |
| Extra word. (Although I suspect this sentence was meant to be: "Hardly a moral definition, this — or indeed, in light of the second law of thermodynamics, a feasible one.") |
| Page 19: | "On our living planet, in contrast, CO2 is just a few parts per 10,000 of the atmosphere." |
| Why not express this in the standard way: "A few hundred parts per million"? |
| Page 22: | "Some of the carbon absorbed by the oceans is used by algae, and some remains dissolved in the water, where it forms carbolic acid." |
| No, carbolic acid is the old name for phenol, C6H5OH. It is a white crystalline solid — and a poison. S/B "carbonic acid". (See WordNet.) |
| Page 22: | "Offshore, gray whales abounded within a few yards of the beach, as did seals and killer whales." |
| For sufficiently large values of "yard". ;-) |
| Page 75: | "Indeed, it will have a disproportionate impact upon the poor, because they lack the means to shield themselves against it." |
| "It" is CO2, so this S/B "against its effects". |
| Page 81: | "Charcoal is very porous — after all, it was once living cells..." |
| Sorry, these two facts do not relate. |
| Page 104: | "Like the generals of old, they may have preferred to go down defiantly in a world racked with conflict." |
| Vocabulary: S/B "wracked". |
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