Climate change is the most serious crisis of our time. As history is
being written in fire in California and Greece, in the warming waters of
the Gulf of Mexico, and in the melting ice of the Arctic and Antarctica,
Carbon Blues demystifies current debates on climate change, discussing
everything from carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere caused by
cars, coal, and oil to global warming and worsening natural disasters.A
detailed examination of the history of climate change and its present
and future consequences, Carbon Blues traces the essential economic
importance of coal in the nineteenth century and oil in the twentieth,
emphasizing the role of the automobile and the internal combustion
engine in the dereliction of our planet. Exposing campaigns to mislead
the public, Mike Mason reveals that the fatal consequences of CO2 and
NO2 have been widely known for decades but successfully discounted and
manipulated by the carbon lobby led by Exxon, BP, figures such as the
Koch brothers, and democratically elected governments. The book
underlines the disturbing truth: that despite current attempts to
remediate climate change, the harm already done - melting polar ice and
the warming and rising of the seas - will be virtually irreversible.As
the fight against climate change comes to a head, Carbon Blues searches
for fruitful ways forward.
