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- Book Title
- Parrot and the Igloo : Climate and the Science of Denial
- Publication Name
- The Parrot and the Igloo
- Title
- The Parrot and the Igloo
- Subtitle
- Climate and the Science of Denial
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 039386670X
- EAN
- 9780393866704
- ISBN
- 9780393866704
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Genre
- Law, Science, Political Science
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 11/07/2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 28.7 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Topic
- Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental, History, Global Warming & Climate Change, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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A New York Times Editors' Choice * A New Yorker and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023 * A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2023 * A USA Today Must-Read Summer Book * A Next Big Idea Must-Read Book * A Library Journal What To Read In 2023 Book The New York Times best-selling author explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life--through a history of climate denial and its consequences.
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
039386670x
ISBN-13
9780393866704
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12050058991
Product Key Features
Book Title
Parrot and the Igloo : Climate and the Science of Denial
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental, History, Global Warming & Climate Change, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Law, Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
28.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qc903.2.U6l57 2023
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Go beyond thrillers and take a chilling look at climate...Lipsky offers a history of climate science--and with it, climate denial--starring a large cast of swindlers, zealots, politicians and hucksters to get to the heart of virulent anti-science ideologies in America., Where can a person living on a melting planet turn, at least before the spaceship fleet is ready, for enlightenment? I'd start, and finish, with David Lipsky's brilliant epic, The Parrot and the Igloo, which I devoured in a single, feverish, page-turning sitting, a perspective-altering dream, a story told in language as sharp and clear as the spring air we knew before all the carbon was released. This book, which starts with the pioneers of the industrial age and the first warnings from the first clear-eyed visionaries, ends the day after tomorrow, with the ice caps dissolving into the sea. It's nothing less than the story of our age retold via the fate of the climate. There are charlatans in it, ad men, liars, heroes, presentiments of the apocalypse, and flashes of hope. You will stare out the same windows when you've finished, but nothing will look the same., A story of facts versus falsehoods and the climate-change deniers who have benefitted from both the hired guns and playbook of Big Tobacco. These are the folks who still pit themselves against the scientists who reveal the unyielding truths of melting glaciers, warming temperatures, and catastrophic weather events, including wildfires. In a painstakingly researched yet witty text, Lipsky bags the culprits., Lipsky's energetic, often irreverent narrative makes it all intensely readable, although infuriating...Deep and detailed...The Parrot and the Igloo arrives in a world on fire and perhaps, just perhaps, finally waking up to its peril., [The Parrot and the Igloo] is a book that should be read by just about everyone...Here a talented writer has painstakingly brought together facts, timelines, and personalities to portray a greater whole. And he has done so in a way that can only leave readers seething, wrathful, and ready for action., Where can a person living on a melting planet turn, at least before the spaceship fleet is ready, for enlightenment? I'd start, and finish, with David Lipsky's brilliant epic The Parrot and the Igloo, which I devoured in a single, feverish, page-turning sitting, a perspective-altering dream, a story told in language as sharp and clear as the spring air we knew before all the carbon was released.... You will stare out the same windows when you've finished, but nothing will look the same., As a scientist we believe that the data on climate impacts is clear. The Parrot and the Igloo shows us with poignant clarity how money, politics and greed have built walls around the status quo to protect their vested interests while the rest of humanity fights for the global future. Thank you, David Lipsky, for exposing the truth and in so doing a path forward to common sense action. Now it is up to us to act., David Lipsky spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment...[P]age turning and appropriately infuriating...[A] thriller of deceptions, side deals and close calls., A National Magazine Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author, Lipsky explains how antiscience sentiment became so strong in the United States by focusing on climate change denial. He lays bare the science of climate change, understood decades ago, then shows how fake news about products like aspirin created the tools for denier ideas to take hold., How global warming happened and how deniers have stalled action is too serious a story not to be treated satirically. In a witty, often immersive, always stylish text, David Lipsky exposes and skewers the movers, shakers, and shills behind our climate crisis. Even if you know the plot, you'll read the story afresh., This is not a book lacking in ambition. Lipsky wants to tell the whole, sprawling, messy tale of climate change: how modern technology made it all happen, how scientists figured it out, and how a network of hustlers and hucksters distracted the public from the threat before our eyes. In the end he pulls it off, delivering a propulsive read that has the snap of a screenplay. Lipsky is a major talent...It's the velvety texture of well-tailored prose that makes this book a climate must-read...My only quibble with this fantastic book...is that it ends too soon., Humor accompanies horrific truths in this vital look at the rise of climate change denial. With dry wit and novelistic flair, National Magazine Award winner Lipsky chronicles how harnessing electricity changed the world.... [S]obering and incisive. Buoyed by thorough historical research, this is a first-rate entry in the field of climate denial studies., What is the lure of anti-science rhetoric and climate change denial? That's the question at the heart of David Lipsky's The Parrot and the Igloo...Lipsky profiles not only the experts who sounded the alarm on the climate crisis but also those who lied about the science and misled the public. The book explores themes of ecological disinformation and greed through the stories of an incredible cast of characters., "Lipsky, award-winning author of books about West Point and a road trip with David Foster Wallace, brings his wide-angle lens to bear on global warming in The Parrot and the Igloo. It's about not just the science of climate change but also the self-interested deniers constantly working to undermine it--"more research is needed" is a central strategy--and inflicting long-term damage in the process. Lipsky strives to make the book as readable as possible [and] his deep research and outrage continually shine through.", David Lipsky spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment...Lipsky's book is a project of maximum ambition. He retells the entire climate story, from the dawn of electricity to the dire straits of our present day [and] makes it page turning and appropriately infuriating. He says it up front: He wants this to be like a Netflix series, bingeable...The Parrot and the Igloo is a thriller of deceptions, side deals and close calls...What are the magic words? We have the facts and the wildfires to prove them. But climate communication--how to make those facts penetrate hearts and minds--seems always a losing battle. The denialists have always had sexier language, and they pay handsomely for it. Lipsky, with his cinematic account, has a good chance to grab back some of that ground., Award-winning author Lipsky takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of climate change denial...[T]his can be considered the historical record to date., Award-winning author Lipsky takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of climate change denial...With the amount of research that went into this book, this can be considered the historical record to date., Award-winning author Lipsky takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of climate change denial...With the amount of research that went into this book, this can be considered the historical record to date on climate action and inaction., In his new book, The Parrot and the Igloo, David Lipsky tells the story of how climate-change denial went mainstream...Lipsky makes thinking about the planet's impending doom not just palatable but entertaining., A comic entertainment....Rife with current pop culture references, from Disney's Frozen to equating the severity of an ozone hole to a Christopher Nolan special effect, Lipsky makes reading about a potentially pending apocalypse fun. Wait...Is that possible? Unequivocally, yes....With the emergence of this Pynchonesque tragicomedy of world population proportions, Lipsky firmly stands on his own., One of the best books I've read in a decade...This is an extraordinary work...The book is so important, I want so many people to read it. Not just because it's important, but because it's so damned entertaining. Because this book is written with love. With love for the reader, with love for humanity, with a huge understanding gaze, a huge nod to the fact that we are in this together...I promise you this book is worth it. David Lipsky has delivered on the promise of his brilliance in this book., A fresh, infuriating epic using the cultural, technological and political roots of why climate disasters are so routinely dismissed....Lipsky, the journalist whose travels with David Foster Wallace became the film 'The End of the Tour' (he was played by Jesse Eisenberg), chews off a lot, ambitiously going as far back as the inventors who created industry. Then he relays through character sketches and turning points a history that reframes why the difficulty in explaining climate science to the public eventually became the bad-faith campaigns of the charlatans and self-interests who benefited from doing nothing. He writes entertainingly, with a snap that makes no bones: He wants this story as absorbing and approachable as a Netflix binge. Our future, he argues, depends on it., I've got to thank bestselling author David Lipsky for pulling off a nifty trick in his latest book--making me laugh while reading about the potential end of human life on this planet...The Parrot and the Igloo gives readers the confidence that we can get through this treatise on such a somber subject as climate change...There's so much more to this book than a focus on the hideous history of climate-change denialism and the vile people who still traffic in it today...Lipsky connects all the dashes and dots [and] makes it easier to understand...As fascinating as the destination of denialism is, the author's stops along the way are equally enthralling., A propulsive read that has the snap of a screenplay...Lipsky marries a novelist's stylishness to a journalist's rigor to create a cinematic refashioning of the climate change story...[A] climate must-read., Ingenious and hilarious...Climate change and climate denial have shared the stage in a gripping tragicomic drama for nearly four decades. In The Parrot and the Igloo David Lipsky brings that drama irresistibly to life in a narrative guaranteed to have readers alternately laughing at the headlong rush of human stupidity and cupidity and screaming helplessly into the void...Lipsky's dizzying no-brakes account of the progression to climate consensus--and of the dogged deniers-for-hire who have attacked it with relentless, reckless abandon--proves engaging and enraging in equal measure., Humor accompanies horrific truths in this vital look at the rise of climate change denial. With dry wit and novelistic flair, National Magazine Award winner Lipsky chronicles how harnessing electricity changed the world...[H]is perspective on how diverse cultural and political forces have contributed to inaction on climate change is sobering and incisive. Buoyed by thorough historical research, this is a first-rate entry in the field of climate denial studies., The best nonfiction book I've read in decades. And the best book of its kind I've ever read.--Darin Strauss, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Half a Life Where can a person living on a melting planet turn, at least before the spaceship fleet is ready, for enlightenment? I'd start, and finish, with David Lipsky's brilliant epic The Parrot and the Igloo , which I devoured in a single, feverish, page-turning sitting, a perspective-altering dream, a story told in language as sharp and clear as the spring air we knew before all the carbon was released. This book, which starts with the pioneers of the industrial age and the first warnings from the first clear-eyed visionaries, ends the day after tomorrow, with the ice caps dissolving into the sea. It's nothing less than the story of our age retold via the fate of the climate. There are charlatans in it, ad men, liars, heroes, presentiments of the apocalypse, and flashes of hope. You will stare out the same windows when you've finished, but nothing will look the same.--Rich Cohen, New York Times best-selling author of Sweet and Low and Monsters, The award-winning journalist and author David Lipsky has written a readable, compelling book about climate science and its deniers....Lively and accessible, but built atop meticulous research....I would recommend it even for topic experts. [In] my own case, I have helped sell supercomputers to climate modelers, am a member of the American Geophysical Union, studied climate science for two decades, and know personally quite a few of the climate scientists included in his book. Yet I still learned new information....Fascinating....He tells the story in a compelling, informative, and illuminating way., [A] history of the idea that human actions are warming the world to cataclysmic effect...The awareness of human-induced warming dawns in 1896 and resurfaces periodically throughout the twentieth century--in 1956, the Times imagined an Arctic so hot that it was home to tropical birds, a landscape that gives Lipsky's book its title...A consensus finally arrives with the release of the fourth I.P.C.C. assessment, in 2007, but this triumph becomes an anticlimax when governments prove unwilling to regulate fossil fuels., David Lipsky's topic in The Parrot and the Igloo--his preoccupation, his obsession--is climate change. On page after page, in chapter after chapter, he sets out how the warming world came to know, and actually has known for decades, that the planet is on fire, that the implications are dire, that the timetable to fight climate change is finite...An excellent, approachable primer on the science of global warming [and] a dizzying account of how long we have known so much about an issue that means so much., It is a book that should be read by just about everyone...Sure, many of us have been angry about the collective failure to act on the facts of climate change for years, even for decades, but in The Parrot and the Igloo Lipsky lays bare the inner workings of the long-running countercurrent to common sense. Here a talented writer has painstakingly brought together facts, timelines, and personalities to portray a greater whole. And he has done so in a way that can only leave readers seething, wrathful, and ready for action., [An] unflinching look at this vital topic...It's a whirlwind tour, and Lipsky pulls it off...The beauty of this book is that it could expose a new audience to the crimes committed in the name of continued profit. So many climate books are preaching to the choir., Lipsky offers a history of climate science--and with it, climate denial--starring a large cast of swindlers, zealots, politicians and hucksters to get to the heart of virulent anti-science ideologies in America., There may be no such thing as a definitive look at the climate crisis, but Lipsky tries to cover what 'a reasonably well-informed person might have been expected to know'...Lipsky masterfully recounts it with tempered outrage and a winking, wry wit., What is incredible about David Lipsky's book, and why you all have to read it: one fear that I had, as a historian--I was worried that these climate-deniers weren't going to pay for it in history. And this book nails them. When you read it, there's no escaping a legacy of idiocy from these people. And charlatanism. And lying. And being corporate captives--it's a bunch of buffoons who gave birth to the climate denial movement...And the book keeps it so people will realize that we used to have such bad-faith citizens and politicians, who were willing to go that Build the Igloo route., Humor accompanies horrific truths in this vital look at the rise of climate change denial. With dry wit and novelistic flair, National Magazine Award winner Lipsky chronicles how harnessing electricity changed the world....[R]evelatory...sobering and incisive. Buoyed by thorough historical research, this is a first-rate entry.
Lccn
2020-475506
Dewey Decimal
304.2/5
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20221208
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