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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?
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