Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming - Everything You Need to Know to Converse Intelligently about Global Warming in Any Social Situation (Paperback)

Whether you need help sorting out facts from sensationalism, or you just want to carry on informed discussions about global warming, "Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming" provides you with the knowledge and confidence to draw your own conclusions and converse intelligently about this topic.

This guidebook explains the basics of global warming and alternative energy in clear, objective language. It provides straightforward answers to frequently asked questions, and clarifies common misconceptions. This book summarizes key points of scientific papers from the world's highest authorities on climate change, including the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It also explains the relationships between climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, natural processes and cycles, human activities, and fossil fuels. The chapters may be read individually or in sequence, serving as educational references that will help you interpret everything you see, hear, and read about global warming in the future.

This book also provides uplifting, optimistic information about potential solutions to global warming in our lifetime. It describes fascinating alternative energy technologies under development today, such as solar, wind, geothermal, microhydro, ocean, and bioenergy.