The Heat Is On

Greenhouse gases and inaction may be roasting our children's future.

Global Warming
(Richard Turtletaub)
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Reviewed by Thomas Hayden
Sunday, March 12, 2006

THE WEATHER MAKERS

How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

By Tim Flannery

Atlantic Monthly. 357 pp. $24

FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE

Man, Nature, and Climate Change

By Elizabeth Kolbert

Bloomsbury. 210 pp. $22.95

THE WINDS OF CHANGE

Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations

By Eugene Linden

Simon & Schuster. 302 pp. $26


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