An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier
islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engages
in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written
dozens of books and articles explaining coastal processes to lay
readers, and he is a frequent and outspoken interviewee in the
mainstream media. Here, the colorful scientist takes on climate
change deniers in an outstanding and much-needed primer on the
science of global change and its effects.
After explaining the greenhouse effect, Pilkey, writing with son
Keith, turns to the damage it is causing: sea level rise, ocean
acidification, glacier and sea ice melting, changing habitats,
desertification, and the threats to animals, humans, coral reefs,
marshes, and mangroves. These explanations are accompanied by Mary
Edna Fraser's stunning batiks depicting the large-scale arenas in
which climate change plays out.
The Pilkeys directly confront and rebut arguments typically
advanced by global change deniers. Particularly valuable are their
discussions of "Climategate," a manufactured scandal that
undermined respect for the scientific community, and the denial
campaigns by the fossil fuel industry, which they compare to the
tactics used by the tobacco companies a generation ago to obfuscate
findings on the harm caused by cigarettes.
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