A Climate of Crisis by Professor Patrick Allitt

A Climate of Crisis (Penguin History of American Life)

by Professor Patrick Allitt

"Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts"--From dust jacket flap.

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My review for The Associated Press:

... The thing to keep in mind when reading "A Climate of Crisis" is that the author, Patrick Allitt, is not a climatologist or any kind of scientist. Allitt is a historian — one who puts his skeptical bias right in the book's introduction, noting that he's receptive to ideas from "counter-environmentalists." ... Curiously, while Allitt puts the work of environmentalists into the context of their skeptics, he doesn't evaluate that skepticism as evenly. There is a difference between scientific uncertainty and political skepticism, which Allitt doesn't acknowledge.

Read the full review here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/allitts-new-book-reviews-us-environmental-history

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