So, for Christmas, my Republican brother has asked for...

[Plaid Adder]

...a "scary book on global warming" cause he says doesn't know much about it.

Well, knock me over with a melted polar icecap. This is a surprise, coming from a 2-time Bush voter.

So, can anyone recommend a good global warming primer?

Boggle,

The Plaid Adder

[Rosco T.]

1. Give him a copy of "Day After Tomorrow" also...

and/or the book behind that "The Coming Global Superstorm".

[niallmac]

3. Won't 'Day After Tomorrow' confuse the facts with fiction?

I know for myself the most stirring thing I ever saw about the environment was Al Gores talk on the subject complete with slides. Once you get over thinking "JESUS CHRIST WHY DIDN'T YOU TALK LIKE THAT DURING THE CAMPAIGN?!" I think you would agree his knowledge of our environmentally mad policies is awsome.

[Rosco T.]

19. If nothing else, it give a good slap in the face to Cheney ....

.. and just tell them that's it a 'speeded up' version of what could happen... but include the book mentioned to go with it.

[FVZA_Colonel]

9. "Day After Tomorrow"

I definetly wouldn't recommend that, if you want to convince him of the validity of Global Warming.

[hopeisaplace]

2. lol !

"Well, knock me over with a melted polar icecap"
struck me funny...(I know its not funny, but the way you said it was)

[norml]

4. The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer R. Weart

The Discovery of Global Warming

Spencer R. Weart



In 2001 a panel representing virtually all the world's governments and climate scientists announced that they had reached a consensus: the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The consensus itself was at least a century in the making. The story of how scientists reached their conclusion--by way of unexpected twists and turns and in the face of formidable intellectual, financial, and political obstacles--is told for the first time in The Discovery of Global Warming. Spencer R. Weart lucidly explains the emerging science, introduces us to the major players, and shows us how the Earth's irreducibly complicated climate system was mirrored by the global scientific community that studied it.

snip

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WEADIS.html

[calico1]

5. Try this one:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415931029/qid=1134607039/sr=8-11/ref=pd_bbs_11/102-1519572-4616134?n=507846&s=books&v=glance

Or some other book written by a scientist. I would not recomment a Hollywood movie since even well intentioned ones tend to be over dramatized. (And most Republicans hate Hollywood).

[ret5hd]

6. Dante's Inferno? ...cause all repugs are going to hell anyway!

(and i should know!) :evilgrin:

[MaineYooper]

7. "the heat is on," by ross gelbspan.

Gelbspan has written several others as well.

[HEyHEY]

8. Tell him to go outside without sunscreen

[ET Awful]

10. You sure he's not just asking for the latest Michael Crighton

book which blames liberals for a vast conspiracy to make people think there's global warming? :evilgrin:

[TahitiNut]

20. I just finished that one. Shameful pandering to pseudo-science.

As a Senior Research Scientist (yep - that was my 'status' job title) in one of the National Laboratories for five years, I saw altogether too much over-accommodating science-for-hire. It's truly amazing what one can do with statistical 'assumptions.'

[madrchsod]

11. cheap and easy

tell him to google! 43 million entries on global warming..the first few pages satisfy his curiosity..

[BJW]

12. Al Gore's Book--Earth in the Balance

[Dudley_DUright]

16. I agree, Al's book would blow his republican mind

He does a good job summarizing the issue from a political point of view, and the science is accurate as well (although now probably a little dated).

[bettyellen]

13. i would also give him "Crimes against Nature" by RFK Jr.....

because it looks like he's trying to find a reason to hate GWB, and that should give him a few.
I think it's gotta be out in paperback now, so toss it in his stocking too.

[KerryReallyWon]

14. How about a copy of the speech

Clinton was suppose to give on Kyoto,,,Bush threatened him he better not go and give speech, or he won't sign on...so Clinton backed down.

Who's side is he on anyway?????

:puke:

[OnionPatch]

15. You don't know how much

better you have just made me feel! I'm feeling depressed today about the state of the world. Being surrounded by freeper-types and fundies with their flags and crosses and jingoistic bumper stickers everywhere I go had me down today. Global warming is the most worrisome of all the issues I clash with my neighbors about. And it's the only one that usurps all the rest in importance IMO. If we don't do something about it, we're toast.

Yesterday I saw a bumper sticker that looked like the classic white and green "Love Your Mother" sticker on a big freeper-type pickup truck but that's not what it said. It said "Stop Global Whining." :banghead: Knowing that there are some Republicans who are actually starting to take global warming seriously gives me a speck of hope today.

[Ian David]

17. Throw in a copy of "Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan

And for Gawd's sake, don't buy from Amazon.

Buy from http://www.Powells.com

Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan / Random House / Popular Science
Book club hardcover / Used - Standard Condition / More info and shelf locations
$11.00
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=4-1114715360-0

[FreedomAngel82]

18. Wow

Seriously?