An informing book. A Christian perspective is not quite my cup of tea but I did rather like its in take whole heartedly. ( )

This is a clearly written and fairly concise book. I read it mainly to get a few clues on how to speak to people that don't believe any scientific evidence surrounding global warming. I don't know that this book helped me in that regard, but I think it would be an excellent book for high school students. The science is not very involved, and the religious/faith based aspect of the book (stewardship of the earth), really is just good citizenship. The insert with charts and pictures is helpful and interesting, but the lack of footnotes is puzzling. A good effort, but I was hoping for more. ( )

This book is mostly a summary of the evidence for climate change presented at a lay level. In that respect, it does well. The explanations about why common objections to global warming don't work are clear and accessible. I was a little frustrated because the book is well-researched but lacks footnotes or endnotes. There's simply a listing of sources used in each chapter. This was probably the publisher's decision and so it makes me feel sorry for the authors. Their book would be much better if specific claims were linked to specific sources.

One of the highlights for me was the color insert filled with charts and photos. Extremely well-done.

It's very unfortunate that this book went to press before ClimateGate. There are a few places the authors could have addressed the issue very naturally, and so the absence of an explanation is jarring. Again, it makes me feel sorry for the authors. Poor timing.

I'm almost always frustrated with the "how should we respond" sections of most books, and this one was no exception. It was par for the course.

The book is solid overall, especially the explanations of the science behind climate change. ( )

I don't know exactly what I expected to discover in reading this book but I came away somewhat disappointed with it. The authors, Katherine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley, begin by identifying themselves as Christians with a biblical worldview, purporting to have written a book that addresses the issue of global warming without any political agenda.

Unfortunately this is a bit misleading since throughout the book they declare the importance of educating ourselves about the dire consequences we face with global warming and how the only real solution is to institute "cap and trade" legislation and begin reducing our dependance on fossil fuels. On this latter point I wholeheartely agree, but not because of the imminent natural catastrophe supposedly facing us but because of the real danger from the Islamic nations that mostly control the majority of the earth's oil reserves. To be fair to the authors, their final two chapters do a decent job of providing simple and effective steps we can take to do our little part in being conscious of our environment. They even bring attention to God's command that we are to be stewards of the earth, and base their activism on this. I agree, but recent developments regarding the duplicity of the environmental movement make me take the research they provide with a grain of salt. Frankly, had they written this book mainly about our Christian reponsibility to the planet which God has given us dominion over, I would have been more enthused.

As it is written, however, I cannot fully recommend this book ( )

I received this book through the LT early reviewers program.

Before I could even begin reading this book, the "climategate" story broke. And, unfortunately, the acceptance of global warming or, the more recent label, climate change, as "settled science," made it difficult to take it seriously. Their answer to the question, "Don't scientists disagree whether climate change is currently happening and whether it is being caused and/or exacerbated by human actions?" is "No, they don't." Yet, even among the very scientists that make up the IPCC, there was disagreement --this could be discovered easily even before the most recent news.

I think people that want to see things change would get a fairer hearing if they would acknowledge that there is disagreement and nuance to this issue. ( )