The parrot and the igloo climate and the science of denial
Explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life through a history of climate denial and its consequences.
Main Author: | Lipsky, David, 1965- (Author) |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2023]
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part one: Inventors. The message
- The hustler
- The promise
- The electrician
- The jubilee
- Part two: Scientists. The wayward wind
- The soda machine
- The tire prints and the smoke menace
- The geophysical experiment
- The overwhelming desire
- The fine noses
- The moles
- The brakes and the Indian
- The Yamal and the fence
- The global computer model
- The wood chips and the malaise
- The frog
- The unwarranted and alarmist report
- The undoing of Thomas Midgley
- The undoing II
- red days
- The home of Donna Reed
- The pirate
- The pilot lights and somebody's wind
- Mark Mills
- Part three: Deniers. Old judge, or tobacco killed a cat
- Stocking and chairs
- Genetics
- A scientific gymnastic feat
- Wall of flesh
- Simple annihilation
- >First class
- Philosophers and priests
- Counterblaste
- A czarina enjoys the corporate Christmas party
- S.
- Emperor of the universe
- Who digested the scientists?
- Millions of guinea pigs
- Dinosaurs
- Committee on the care of children
- An exceptional case
- "Arthur Robinson is a good scientist"
- Arthur Robinson
- Arthur and the world
- Jason Bourne's crestfallen itinerary
- Editing turns the mild into weather gods
- ASS and chair
- Glengarry Glen Monckton
- The business cards and the straight noodle
- Epilogue: The parrot and the igloo.