Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
Tell me about The Rough Guide to Climate Change.
There are very few books and very few sources of information generally that give a truly balanced introduction to climate science, and even fewer that are both balanced and genuinely informed. Robert Henson is a staff writer at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading climate change research bodies. He’s a meteorologist by training, and his day job is to read pretty much every science paper that comes out on this subject, digest it and put it into language that students and the media will understand. He’s familiar with this subject in ways that very few other good writers are.
So it’s a non-partisan digest of climate science aimed at a reader who knows nothing?
Yes, it’s easily the best introduction to climate science, but the other thing that’s unusual about the book is that it gives a very concise yet thorough overview of the history and possible future of the climate debate.
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Duncan Clark has worked to raise environmental awareness as a writer, journalist and campaigner. He is a consultant editor at the Guardian, and a director of the 10:10 campaign, which requires participants to reduce their greenhouse emissions by 10% within a year. In May 2010, the UK’s coalition government signed up to the project. His books include The Rough Guide to Green Living
