Why read Science as a Contact Sport?

Book cover of Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate

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Schneider persuasively outlines a plan to avert the building threat and develop a positive, practical policy that will bring climate change back under our control, help the economy with a new generation of green energy jobs and productivity, and reduce the dependence on unreliable exporters of oil-and thus ensure a…

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1 author picked Science as a Contact Sport as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Steve M. Easterbrook

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Stephen Schneider was one of the leading scientists in the early days of climate modeling and one of the first climate scientists to understand the importance of science communication. I think of this book as both a memoir and a political primer for anyone interested in how warnings from climate scientists get attacked and undermined in the media.

The book is particularly good at explaining how the UN’s international reports on climate change came together and why mainstream media networks consistently miss the story when reporting on climate science.

From Steve's list on how scientists discovered global warming threat.