[UPDATE: I've been asked a good question by a professor thinking about adopting the book for fall, and that is, are galleys available for examination. Answer: Sorry, not yet. However, for anyone who wants a sense of the book, I am happy to walk through the volume in a phone chat before any spring textbook ordering deadlines. Just drop me a note.]My new book, The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming, will be published late this summer. It will be available in time for use in fall courses. I'll be using it in my first-year graduate seminar.
For those faculty who would like to use it in their courses, I plan on blogging systematically about the book -- sort of virtual book club -- during the fall term and plan to organize the discussion in such a way to be useful to university courses, from undergraduate to graduate levels. I will also be providing assignments and spreadsheets to accompany the discussion.
If you'd like to participate, you can email at pielke@colorado.edu to discuss details and to make requests, or you can just follow along. The book can be pre-ordered at Amazon for $17 andif you are interested in an exam or desk copy, see here. If you are outside the US, the publication schedule will be a bit later and I am happy to tailor discussions to courses on different schedules.
The Fix will soon be in . . .
10 comments:
Hi, Roger: How about putting online a table of contents & brief description, so we can assess how it might fit?
Unless you have problems with FOIA requests or something...--Jean
Sounds like a great idea Roger. Best of luck.
By coincidence, I just turned down the opportunity to complete a 3rd year university spreadsheet based, environmental science project.
Detailed examples for every aspect of the project apparently wasn't enough.
"... you can email at pielke@colroado.edu ..."
I'm guessing this is a typo.
-3-Bill
Thanks, corrected
-1-Jean
Yes, all this is coming soon.
But in short and for now, it will discuss: science, policy fallacies, decarbonization, adaptation, disasters, politicization of science and policy recommendations ... all in less than 300 pp.
$17? I don't think I can take a college level textbook seriously at that price -- better jack it up to $117. lol
-5-Jeff
Perhaps you might then be interested in this? ;-)
http://www.amazon.com/Presidential-Science-Advisors-Perspectives-Reflections/dp/9048138973/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269532508&sr=1-1
Roger,
Off topic but...
The following would be a great image to use the next time you comment on wind power:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Don_Quixote_6.jpg
Wind power is -- like -- so totally retro, dude! ;-)
A book club! Great idea. I'll start chilling the white wine.
Roger
Do you know when the book will be available on kindle?
-9-MIKE
I think all editions will be released in September. But I'll check ...
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