The climate book. On cruise to where the world is melting
Klimaboka. På cruise dit verda smeltar
This is a voyage. Through all the talk about climate.
Don’t we know it now? That the North Pole is melting. That the weather is getting wilder and wetter. That the sea level is rising. And that all this is a threat to us. At the same time scientists are discovering faults in UN’s climate reports. And an extra cold winter leaves us standing like confused question marks. What’s really happening here? And who should we trust?
Sigri Sandberg Meløy has written a subjective book about facts. She literally takes us on a climate cruise, to the North, where the climate questions are pushed to extremes. She navigates through the topical issues, brushing against ice bears, climate models, satellites, Chinese, the greenhouse effect, the most recent research and the hated journalists. She writes with a nerve, but unassuming and honest. The goal is to become a bit wiser – without falling into a climate depression.
The book ends with a section of answers from politicians, including Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, from scientists and young people from Longyearbyen: What should be done?
Samlaget 2011
