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The parrot and the igloo : climate and the science of denial /

Explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life through a history of climate denial and its consequences.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lipsky, David, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes > Political aspects.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Global warming.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part one: Inventors. The message
  • The hustler
  • The promise
  • The electrician
  • The jubilee
  • Part two: Scientists. The wayward wind
  • The soda machine
  • The tire prints and the smoke menace
  • The geophysical experiment
  • The overwhelming desire
  • The fine noses
  • The moles
  • The brakes and the Indian
  • The Yamal and the fence
  • The global computer model
  • The wood chips and the malaise
  • The frog
  • The unwarranted and alarmist report
  • The undoing of Thomas Midgley
  • The undoing II--red days
  • The home of Donna Reed
  • The pirate
  • The pilot lights and somebody's wind
  • Mark Mills
  • Part three: Deniers. Old judge, or tobacco killed a cat
  • Stocking and chairs
  • Genetics
  • A scientific gymnastic feat
  • Wall of flesh
  • Simple annihilation
  • >First class
  • Philosophers and priests
  • Counterblaste
  • A czarina enjoys the corporate Christmas party
  • S.
  • Emperor of the universe
  • Who digested the scientists?
  • Millions of guinea pigs
  • Dinosaurs
  • Committee on the care of children
  • An exceptional case
  • "Arthur Robinson is a good scientist"--Arthur Robinson
  • Arthur and the world
  • Jason Bourne's crestfallen itinerary
  • Editing turns the mild into weather gods
  • ASS and chair
  • Glengarry Glen Monckton
  • The business cards and the straight noodle
  • Epilogue: The parrot and the igloo.