| THE NEW CLIMATE WAR The Fight To Take Back the Planet Michael E. Mann New York: PublicAffairs, January 2021 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-5417-5823-0 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-5417-5823-4 | 351pp. | HC/BWI | $29.00 | |
| Page 12: | "Credibility and integrity are a scientist's bread and butter and greatest asset. It is the currency that allows scientists to serve as trusted communicators to the public." |
| Number error: S/B "They are". |
| Page 12: | "Needleman was a professor and researcher at The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine." |
| This is where he ended his career, as a pediatrician, child psychiatrist, researcher and professor. But I think it would have been better to highlight his time at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he trained in pediatrics and served as Chief Resident. That was where he began his crusade against lead poisoning. A good reference is Toxic Truth by Lydia Denworth. Here's my review. |
| Page 21: | Heading: "AND SO, IT BEGINS" |
| I think this would work better without the comma. |
| Page 23: | "the graph." |
| The graph on this page is hard to read. |
| Page 29: | "Santer and his IPCC coauthors concluded, based on the existing climate literature, concluded that the balance of evidence suggests..." |
| Extra word: remove this instance of "concluded". |
| Page 40: | "It is plausible, if not probable, that a half-trillion-dollar oil deal was the primary impetus. Quid meet quo." |
| I think this would work better with a comma. |
| Page 44: | "And then there is Charles Koch, the remaining 'Koch brother,' his brother David having passed away in August 2019." |
| It's a nit, but Fred Koch had four sons, and AFAIK three of them are still living. |
| Page 72: | "Social media, as we have already seen, provides a perfect tool for dividers..." |
| Number error: S/B "provide". |
| Page 79: | "In the meantime, those who rely on air travel have no choice right now but to keep emitting carbon—and, for those of us, like myself, who have the luxury of being able to pay for it, purchasing verifiable carbon offsets." |
| Extra comma; S/B "and for those of us". |
| Page 80: | "...climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe responded that 'flying and eating and having children is often framed as a purity test.'..." |
| Number error: S/B "are often framed as purity tests." |
| Page 87: | "Back in November 2018, in response to a widely misunderstand and misrepresented statement by AOC..." |
| Part-of-speech error: S/B "misunderstood". |
| Page 93: | Quoting Seth Borenstein: "Cobb will fly just once next year, to attend a massive international science meeting in Chili..." |
| Typo: S/B "Chile"." |
| Page 112: | "The takeaway message from this particular episode, however, is that there is a fairly aggressive effort underway by some..." |
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| Page 137: | "But in what stands out as a blatant untruth in an already a gratuitously error-ridden film..." |
| Extra article: S/B just "gratuitously". |
| Page 141: | "...and the Heartland Institute (and their payed attack dog Anthony Watts)..." |
| Spelling; S/B "paid". |
| Page 145: | "We have seen that there is a dual attack underway by inactivists..." |
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| Page 171: | "...given that the embodied carbon emissions associated with their construction is a 'sunken' carbon cost..." |
| Number error: S/B "are 'sunken' carbon costs". |
| Page 176: | "When it came to action, all the Morrison government could muster were hasty, reactive announcements of government funding initiatives to deal with the bushfire crisis after it was already underway." |
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| Page 186: | "...and invoked the 'Yellow Vest' canard that inactivists so often employ to throw damp water on carbon pricing." |
| I'm not sure how to deal with this — except to turn snarky and observe that it's better than wet water. |
| Page 214: | "However, it's wrong to claim they are rising or to ignore the transition that is clearly underway toward a renewable-energy-driven economy." |
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| Page 235: | "...through the lens of their larger responsibilities to their clients—in particular, their responsibility not to laden them with risky long-term fossil fuel investments..." |
| Part-of-speech error: "laden" is an adjective, not a verb. Perhaps S/B "burden". |
| Page 238: | "In Australia a similar story is underway." |
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| Page 245: | Cartoon on page 245 |
| This cartoon is hard to read. |
| Pages 247-8: | "But is seems plausible that voters will recognize..." |
| Typo: S/B "it". |
| Pages 248-9: | "—may be an underlying factor favoring the sorts of pandemics we have just witnessed." |
| Number error: S/B "sort of pandemic". (Alternatively, remove the word "just".) |
| Page 249: | "Photosynthetic organisms, such as cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and plants, for example, take in CO2 and produce oxygen..." |
| Extra words: S/B "plants,". |
| Page 250: | "The COVID crisis was acute and immediate, and the penalty of inaction was swift." |
| Wording: S/B "penalty for inaction". |
| Page 260: | "...the third major bleaching event of the past five years, the most extensive yet, was underway." |
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| Page 262: | "Unlike coronavirus, we cannot look forward to a literal vaccine for the planet." |
| Missing word: S/B "Unlike with coronavirus". |
| Page 264: | "...there is a movement underway, as we have seen, among some progressive climate activists to oppose it." |
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| Page 267: | Quoting Jeff Goodell: "a decade or so from now, when the climate revolution is fully underway and Miami Beach real estate prices..." |
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