Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers is at # 18 overall on Amazon.com this morning, presumably boosted dramatically by an appearance on "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross yesterday. He now has a shot at making the New York Times bestseller list. For those of us trying to convince the publishing industry that books on global warming are not a waste of their time, this is a truly heartening sign....
P.S.: If Flannery's book on global warming is doing well, just wait until Al Gore's comes out....
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Let's hope that the books have the same impact here that Flannery's had in Australia, where a very important government official decided it was time to tell the public the truth about the potential impact of global warming.
He was very good on Terry's show, BTW.
Best,
D
'An Inconvenient Truth." That sums it up pretty well.