Michael E. Mann's "The New Climate War: The Fight to Save Our Planet"

Alan Holtz: Very readable treatise on how to combat climate disinformation and inactivity. I would have appreciated what Dr. Mann thought about hydrogen engines as a clean power source.

United States on Sep 20, 2023

Donald J Trump: I usually don’t review books or give less than 3 or 4 stars to books as the limited number of books I’ve read so far, have all taught me something or the other or have been enjoyable reads. This one demanded that I write something to warn anyone who wished to inform themselves a little more about climate change and put their time, effort and money into a book for that purpose.

To start off the title of this book is misleading. This book isn’t about a climate ‘war’ or ‘the fight to take back our planet’ in the context anyone would be fooled to believe. The summary should be read as follows- “he’s wrong, she’s wrong, Trump was wrong, Scott Morrison was wrong, Murdoch media was wrong, Wallace was wrong, I was right and I am right and I spent my sabbatical in Australia but I won’t tell you what to do. Whatever right that happened in the past I had predicted and said so much before it happened and he’s a moron for having said something and she’s a moron for tweeting something and Russian trolls are trolling…” and so on. Mann goes around in circles in all the chapters, repeating some ‘information’ so many times it’s difficult...

India on Oct 19, 2022

Emilia: Il miglior libro che abbia mai letto finora sul tema!

Italy on Aug 04, 2022

kernel32: This is a renowned best-selling book, shortlisted for, if not winning, some prestigious awards. It concentrates on the powerful fossil-fuel industry lobby, albeit with a strong US bias. We have to go back nearly 50 years to Anthony Sampson’s “Seven Sisters” to find the equivalent documentation of what the NY Times called “institutionalised greed and an abrogation of governmental responsibility” about the oil industry. The author explains the various threats of greenhouse gases and maintains hopes of decarbonising solutions. My own preference is for what is described on p108 as a fee-and-dividend model that corrects pricing to take account of polluting common resources and returns it back to the people. In our modern capitalist world only pricing can correct for the “tragedy of the commons”. The term “inactivists” is used for those supporting fossil-fuel interests and there is regular use of the word “agency” for a sense that action is possible. Inactivists include protagonists for “solutions that are not solutions at all”, including carbon capture and geoengineering. It is shown that some popular responses play into the hands of...

United Kingdom on Jan 04, 2022

Jennifer ATL: This book is one of the best I have ever read about the crisis of global warming and where we are in it. It's timing is also impeccable. For me, this book is just the thing I needed to read right now.

In other reviews I see readers disappointed that this book isn't a review or presentation of the centuries of science and research and evidence that has led to the 99.7% consensus of working climate scientists about global warming being 1) real, 2) us, 3) terrible and 4) something we can stop. That is not where we are anymore as a world, and for the scientific community it really has not actually been in dispute since Dr. James Hansen presented the danger to the US Congress and the people of the world in 1988. If anyone is looking for a great resource to understand the basics and the incredible science done to prove and understand global warming, may I strongly recommend the website Skeptical Science, which is exquisitely good. The quality and extensive citations of the site are well-attested to by the virulent hatred with which the pawns of the petroligarchy lie about it.

Learning climate science is also not where I am, nor is it where we need to...

United States on Dec 30, 2021

Igor Santos Costa: This book is a must read and tells us the new ways climate deniers works. How to recognize the so many traps that can leads us away from the truth about the climate crisis. It also helps us see some paths and solutions we should fight for. I feel this book already changed all my view about this moment is our history. I hope you can enjoy it like i did.

Brazil on Apr 25, 2021

Peter Johnson: It's not about climate science or the climate crisis. Michael Mann's new book is about something much more important: how the petroleum industry grey men manipulate public opinion and play mind games on social media so that all the concern and energy generated by the climate crisis is expended on infighting and inhouse quarreling about invented issues that deflect from the real target. We are being led to believe that it's all our fault. The classic case is the NRA's clever line: 'guns don't kill people, people do'. The Koch brothers and their false-flag 'institutes' work from the same playbook. So add another 'D' to the list. After denial, disinformation, and doubt, we now have deflection.

Canada on Mar 14, 2021

Amazon Customer: The are two main facets of climate change. The science behind it and the policy and advocacy we need to adopt going forward. Dr. Mann is certainly an expert on the former but this book is about the latter. Dr. Mann's knowledge of the world of climate deniers and fossil fuel apologists is extensive. And he uses that knowledge to describe in detail their new plan of attack on preventing meaningful movement on climate. Specifically, they lost the arguments on the science a long time ago. So they have pivoted to new tactics of deflection, delay and obfuscation. To espouse the wrong approach that climate change can only be resolved with personal sacrifices and not wholesale policy changes that help transition us to renewables. Plus they have wholeheartedly embraced and propped up the doomists among us. That climate is such a lost cause that we might as well sit back and pollute because it's all over anyway. In the book Dr. Mann expertly describes how we can fight against these new challenges. It's certainly one of the most important climate books of the still new century. Most importantly, it's not a book that will put you into a depression as some offerings about...

United States on Feb 20, 2021

Robert M. Fanney: In 1997, in A Demon-Haunted World, the late, great, Carl Sagan warned of a future America clenched in the jaws of anti-reason and superstition. Of a time when "no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues," where the public in general became unable to differentiate between "what feels good and what's true." He admonished us to use the tool of enlightenment -- science -- as a candle in this darkness. He stated succinctly, prophetically "science is a way to call the bluff of those who pretend to knowledge."

Scientist Dr. Michael E Mann, in his groundbreaking work -- The New Climate War -- equips you with just such a candle in the demon-haunted present of 2021.

The New Climate War's substance and related experience -- provided to you by a scientist who has fought on the front lines of this present war against reason -- is an entirely timely and needed guide. It provides a history of past disinformation campaigns inflicted upon the public by bad actor and polluting interests, it identifies the messaging aimed at exploiting your in-built human limitations to inflict you with a false frame of reference outside actual truth, and it...

United States on Feb 16, 2021