From American Scientist, a review of Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth’s Climate by Stephen Schneider; Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen; and Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming by James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore. From The Nation, Mark Hertsgaard and Johann Hari on Climategate claptrap. An excerpt from Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change by Clive Hamilton. American Psychosis: We’ve got to confront our collective denial concerning climate change. From Climate Desk, is the planet really warming up? Just ask the corporations that stand to make — or lose — billions due to "climate exposure"; and corporations love to talk about going green, but not many are planning for a changing climate. More on Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus's The Death of Environmentalism. Eli Kintisch discusses his book Hack the Planet: Science's Best Hope — or Worst Nightmare — for Averting Climate Catastrophe. Global warming panic attack: Brad DeLong's plan to address the potential cataclysm of global warming is shrill, impractical and utopian, but you don't have a better one. The Futurist looks at the future of the global environment, with contributions by Dennis Bushnell on the weapons against global warming, Jamais Cascio on the potential and pitfalls of geoengineering, and more. A review of Eaarth by Bill McKibben (and more and more and more and more and more). An excerpt from How to Cool the Planet by Jeff Goodell (and more). A look at why buying green and changing personal behavior won't save the planet. Does James Lovelock have a point: could democracy be an obstacle to planetary safety?
