HOTHOUSE EARTH: THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT & GAIA [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1990] GRIBBIN, John - Hardcover

Gribbon, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593017951 ISBN 13: 9780593017951

Publisher: Grove, 1990

Synopsis

Examines the greenhouse effect against the background of natural climatic processes. Predicts malaria in London and predicts Greece may become a desert.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Another entry in publishers' Earth Day sweepstakes. This book will add little of substance to the debate over the causes, extent, and consequences of a potential global warming. Covering roughly the same ground as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert H. Boyle's Dead Heat ( LJ 4/15/90) and Francesca Lyman and others' The Greenhouse Trap ( LJ 4/15/90), this is less balanced and often dogmatic. Gribbin, an astrophysicist turned science writer, is convinced that the world is heading rapidly towards an eco-catastrophe, but his case is marred by imprecise language, incomplete explanations, arbitrary dating, and nonexistent, or incomplete, references. His book is not recommended.
-Richard Shotwell, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0593017951
• ISBN 13: 9780593017951
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288