Reviews

The Parrot and the Igloo by David Lipsky

lisafrancine's review against another edition

Intriguing, but at times choppy sentences and an assumption that the reader has previous background knowledge of the time period and/or the people being discussed.  I was also concerned given the subtitle that there were no footnotes, bibliography sharing/supporting Lipsky's research & writing, etc. 
I might try to go back to it again, but may also try other books on the topic such as, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story From Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Solnit; Under the Sky We Make: How to Be a Human in a Warming World by Kimberly Nicolas, PhD.; and Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert.

jkennedy9472's review against another edition

4.0

David Lipsky chronicles the beginnings of climate change up to all the deniers.  With humor (I laugh because it hurts to cry after reading some of these sections) and exhaustively researched historical events and people, David Lipsky does not hide the fact that he is a strong believer in human caused climate change. He points out how the climate change (and denialism) became very, very political. How deniers took their lead from the tobacco industry (they loss, right? but I still see people smoking) and repeated the oft said phrase, 'We need more research on this.' Even though climate change has been talked about since the 1880's, we still need more research. Right? Our newspapers from the earlier 20th century heralded the coming climate change in our future, only to fast forward a few decades to find them backtracking as special interest groups take control As David Lipsky points out more than once in this book, 19 of the 20 hottest years have happened since 2000. Sobering, but still not enough for the deniers.