Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers is at # 18 overall on Amazon.com this morning, presumably boosted dramatically by an appearance on "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross yesterday. He now has a shot at making the New York Times bestseller list. For those of us trying to convince the publishing industry that books on global warming are not a waste of their time, this is a truly heartening sign....
P.S.: If Flannery's book on global warming is doing well, just wait until Al Gore's comes out....
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May I claim a small amount of the credit, too? The Dallas Morning News ran my comparative review of The Weather Makers and Elizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe as a column yesterday. (Link http://www.guidelive.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/books/stories/DN-global_… )
Online registration is required for that, but it is now also online at my Science Shelf website. (Link http://www.scienceshelf.com/WeatherMakers_FieldNotes.htm )
Let's hope that the books have the same impact here that Flannery's had in Australia, where a very important government official decided it was time to tell the public the truth about the potential impact of global warming.
He was very good on Terry's show, BTW.
Best,
D
'An Inconvenient Truth." That sums it up pretty well.