@article{342061,
      recid = {342061},
      author = {Pooley, Eric.},
      title = {The climate war : true believers, power brokers, and the  fight to save the earth /},
      publisher = {Hyperion,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {x, 481 p. ;},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {In The Climate War, Eric Pooley-deputy editor of Bloomberg  BusinessWeek-does for global warming what Bob Woodward did  for presidents and Lawrence Wright did for terrorists. In  this epic tale of an American civil war, Pooley takes us  behind the scenes and into the hearts and minds of the most  important players in the struggle to cap global warming  pollution-a fight in which trillions of dollars and the  fate of the planet are at stake. Why has it been so hard  for America to come to grips with climate change? Why do so  many people believe it isn't really happening? As President  Obama's science advisor John Holdren has said, "We're  driving in a car with bad brakes in a fog and heading for a  cliff. We know for sure that cliff is out there. We just  don't know exactly where it is. Prudence would suggest that  we should start putting on the brakes." But powerful  interests are threatened by the carbon cap that would speed  the transition to a clean energy economy, and their agents  have worked successfully to deny the problem and delay the  solutions.  To write this book, Pooley, the former managing  editor of Fortune and chief political correspondent for  Time, spent three years embedded with an extraordinary cast  of characters: from the flamboyant head of one of the  nation's largest coal-burning energy companies to the  driven environmental leader who made common cause with him,  from leading scientists warning of impending catastrophe to  professional skeptics disputing almost every aspect of  climate science, from radical activists chaining themselves  to bulldozers to powerful lobbyists, media gurus, and  advisors in Obama's West Wing-and, to top it off,  unprecedented access to former Vice President Al Gore and  his team of climate activists.  Pooley captures the quiet  determination and even heroism of climate campaigners who  have dedicated their lives to an uphill battle that's still  raging today. He asks whether we have what it takes to  preserve our planet's habitability, and shows how America's  climate war sends shock waves from Bali to Copenhagen. No  other reporter enjoys such access to this cast of  characters. No other book covers this terrain.  From the  trenches of a North Carolina power plant to the  battlefields of Capitol Hill, Madison Avenue, and Wall  Street, The Climate War is the essential read for anyone  who wants to understand the players and politics behind the  most important issue we face today.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/342061},
}