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Robyn Eckersley

Robyn Eckersley reviews ‘The Weather Makers: The history and future impact of climate change’ by Tim Flannery and ‘Living In The Hothouse: How global warming affects Australia’ by Ian Lowe

December 2005–January 2006, no. 277 01 December 2005
The former co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), John Houghton, declared in 2003 that global warming is a weapon of mass destruction that is at least as dangerous as chemical, biological or nuclear weapons and, indeed, terrorism. It is therefore no small irony that two prominent members of the ‘coalition of the willing’ and the world ... (read more)