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Also by Chris Mooney:

Blood World, July 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Blood World, August 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Storm World, July 2007
Hardcover
The Republican War on Science, September 2005
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STORM WORLD
By: Chris Mooney

Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

Harcourt
July 2007
On Sale: July 2, 2007
400 pages
ISBN: 0151012873
EAN: 9780151012879
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

One of the leading science journalists and commentators working today, Chris Mooney delves into a red-hot debate in meteorology: whether the increasing ferocity of hurricanes is connected to global warming. In the wake of Katrina, Mooney follows the careers of leading scientists on either side of the argument through the 2006 hurricane season, tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weather itself have skewed and amplified what was already a fraught scientific debate. As Mooney puts it: "Scientists, like hurricanes, do extraordinary things at high wind speeds."

Mooney—a native of New Orleans—has written a fascinating and urgently compelling book that calls into question the great inconvenient truth of our day: Are we responsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than they already are?

Media Buzz

Talk of the Nation - August 24, 2007
Talk of the Nation - July 13, 2007
Weekend Edition Saturday - July 7, 2007