Crispin Tickell
Cutting Out Carbon
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change
By Tim Flannery
Allen Lane The Penguin Press 341pp £20 order from our bookshop
Over the last thirty years issues of climate change have crossed the bridge between theory, history and science on one side and public awareness and international politics on the other. Can the activities of one small animal species really be affecting the chemistry of the sky and the vagaries of the weather?
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