SCIENCE AS A CONTACT SPORT: INSIDE THE BATTLE TO SAVE EARTH’S CLIMATE

Book ID/图书代码： 09651009B33987

English Summary/英文概要： It’s been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can’t we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases, deforestation, and catastrophic warming trends? Why are we still addicted to fossil fuels? Have we all just been fiddling for 40 years as the world burns around us?

Schneider, part of the Nobel Prize–winning team that shared the accolade with Al Gore in 2007, had a front-row seat at this unfolding environmental meltdown. Piecing together events like a detective story, Schneider reveals that as expert consensus grew, well-informed activists warned of dangerous changes no one knew how to predict precisely—and special interests seized on that very uncertainty to block any effective response. He persuasively outlines a plan to avert the building threat and develop a positive, practical policy that will bring climate change back under our control, help the economy with a new generation of green energy jobs and productivity, and reduce the dependence on unreliable exporters of oil—and thus ensure a future for ourselves and our planet that’s as rich with promise as our past.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 科學家花費了四十年，才終於了解到「全球暖化」對我們所賴以生存的星球已造成潛在威脅。
為什麼？
如果我們早知道卡特政府對我們造成的威脅，為什麼我們不能採取果斷行動--避開溫室氣體、濫伐和災難性的氣候變暖趨勢？為什麼我們還執著於石油出口國給的礦物燃料？
難道我們必須被愚弄四十年，眼睜睜看著世界在我們眼前被毀滅嗎？
作者Stephen H. Schneider博士，2007年與政府間氣候變化專門委員會的艾伯特·阿諾·高爾(AL Gore)共同獲得度諾貝爾和平獎，是開展環境危機意識的先驅。
像偵探故事一般，他集結了許多重大事件，透過專家們的共識、沒人能準確預測的危險變化背後揭露的警覺性及緊緊抓住特殊利益的不確定性事件，企圖阻擋任何可能有效的反應。
他更詳盡地陳列了一份計畫書︰避免建築物的威脅、建構了一個積極可行的政策︰能掌控「氣候變化」，幫助提高經濟與新一代綠色能源工作和生產力並減低對不可靠的石油出口國的依賴—如是，也能確保我們一個安定的未來，如同我們過去所承諾的：讓自己住在一個富裕的星球。(SL)

Awards/获奖情况：★ 作者是獲得麥克阿瑟天才獎的Stephen H. Schneider博士！
★ 作者Stephen H. Schneider博士與政府間氣候變化專門委員會的艾伯特·阿諾·高爾(AL Gore)共同獲得2007年度諾貝爾和平獎。
★ 他也是美國總統尼克森(Nixon)、卡特(Carter)、雷根(Ronald Reagan), 柯林頓(Clinton)以及布希政府的顧問專家。

获奖情况介绍
"Science As A Contact Sport unfolds the incredible true story of the struggle to understand the science and focus the world’s attention on the climate crisis. I have worked with Steve Schneider on the scientific and policy aspects of climate change for decades, and find him adept at bringing scientific clarity to this critical issue--explaining its many facets to concerned policymakers and the public." ---Al Gore

"Why haven’t we halted global warming in the decades since it became recognized as a major threat to human well-being? What should we do to halt it now? In this crystal-clear, moving, funny book, Stephen Schneider makes a highly complex subject understandable."---Jared Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel," and "Collapse"

"Stephen Schneider is masterful at translating enormously complex scientific principles into a language that we can all comprehend."---Robert Redford

"Give Stephen Schneider points for prescience...The ominous warnings that he and other climatologists sounded...are coming true sooner.... ---Newsweek.com

About the Author/作者介绍： Stephen H. Schneider博士獲得麥克阿瑟天才獎！
作者Stephen H. Schneider博士與政府間氣候變化專門委員會的艾伯特·阿諾·高爾(AL Gore)共同獲得2007年度諾貝爾和平獎。
他也是美國總統尼克森(Nixon)、卡特(Carter)、雷根(Ronald Reagan), 柯林頓(Clinton)以及布希政府的顧問專家。

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