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Outstanding
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The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Andrew Nikiforuk
This authoritative and maddeningly important book will fuel dinner arguments, spark school debates and rudely challenge the self-satisfied truffle-eaters and climate deniers among Calgary's oil elite.
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Outstanding
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Library Journal Gloria Maxwell
Flannery's powerful warning is a quick-start guide that will inspire readers to make a difference by changing their environmental behaviors. [Mar 2006]
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Outstanding
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Kirkus Reviews
A powerful and persuasive book, sure to provoke strong reaction. Oct 2005, p.1122]
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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
Flannery consistently produces the hard goods related to his main message that our environmental behavior makes us all "weather makers" who "already possess all the tools required to avoid catastrophic climate change." [Oct 2005, p.44]
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Outstanding
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Washington Post Thomas Hayden
It's as if having earned his scientific capital, Flannery is now ready to spend it, and in so doing he delivers a tour de force. Here, finally, we have an authoritative, scientifically accurate book on global warming that sparkles with life, clarity and intelligence, rather than settling for being merely important.
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Outstanding
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Daily Telegraph Susan Elderkin
A serious, lucid and far from dry examination of everything involved in the climate change story, from greenhouse gases to political corruption, by an informed and cool-headed field zoologist from Australia.
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Outstanding
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Entertainment Weekly Wook Kim
An enthralling crash course in climate change that benefits from Tim Flannery's offhand interdisciplinary brilliance (moving, in a few pages, from discussions of South African flora to deep-sea fishes to the environmental impact of cities).
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Favorable
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Booklist Gilbert Taylor
After disturbing his audience with predictions of the imminent disappearance of coral reefs and polar bears, Flannery verbally accosts the industries and politicians he believes are responsible. [Mar 2006]
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Favorable
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The Economist
He mercilessly dissects the alternatives—particularly the idea of replacing hydrocarbon fuels with hydrogen, which he regards as expensive and probably technically unfeasible.
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Favorable
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Chicago Tribune Brenda Fowler
An almost encyclopedic review of the issue of global warming.
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Favorable
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The Guardian Paul Brown
A refreshingly different perspective. While most of the book takes a global view, he pulls no punches in his assessment of his own government's contribution to the mess, and is acerbic about its motives, policies and abilities.
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Favorable
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Christian Science Monitor Lori Valigra
The mix of detailed science and clear language will please both the casual reader and the arm-chair climatologist.
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Favorable
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San Francisco Chronicle Steve Heilig
Flannery has done his job well, presenting the climate story engagingly in clear language, short paragraphs and avoiding overwrought scaremongering -- although those with ties to oil, automotive and other such industries will probably dispute that.
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Favorable
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Slate Rob Nixon
His robust, charismatic voice escorts us effortlessly through 300 million years of climatic variations. The long view is his forte.
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Favorable
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Boston Globe Bill McKibben
A useful if very long account of the workings of the atmosphere, the recent history of earth's climate, and the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.
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Mixed
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Boston Globe Bill McKibben
A useful if very long account of the workings of the atmosphere, the recent history of earth's climate, and the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.
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Mixed
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The New York Times Janet Maslin
Detail-packed to the point of terrible fascination.
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Mixed
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The New York Times Book Review Carl Zimmer
Flannery makes a different mistake, sometimes overreaching in his attempt to make an absolutely overwhelming case.
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Unfavorable
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Los Angeles Times Mark Svenvold
Our thinking isn't going to change if our hearts aren't changed, and our hearts won't be changed, I'm afraid, by the often jumpy and scattershot chapters of Flannery's book.
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