Southeastern Geographer

Robert Brinkmann
Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming. The Illustrated Guide to the Findings of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (review)
Southeastern Geographer - Volume 49, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 97-99

The University of North Carolina Press

Project MUSE - Southeastern Geographer - Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming. The Illustrated Guide to the Findings of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (review) Project MUSE Journals Southeastern Geographer Volume 49, Number 1, Spring 2009 Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming. The Illustrated Guide to the Findings of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (review) Southeastern Geographer Volume 49, Number 1, Spring 2009 E-ISSN: 1549-6929 Print ISSN: 0038-366X DOI: 10.1353/sgo.0.0035 Reviewed by Robert BrinkmannUniversity of South Florida -- Tampa Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming. The Illustrated Guide to the Findings of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change. Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump. 2008. DK Publishing, Inc., New York. 208 pp. Maps, photographs, tables, glossary, index. $25.00 paper. (ISBN: 978-0-1360-4435-2) For those of us who teach physical geography, this story may sound familiar. We were at the point in the course when the material delved into those anthropogenic issues associated with weather and climate such as air pollution, urban heat islands, and global warming. As happens most times when I teach this course, one lone hand goes up and challenges the whole notion of global warming and thus many of the foundations of the entire unit. There are many answers that I can give, but the very question is exhausting and...