About the Book
Among the few irreplaceable volumes yet written about climate change, Kolbert offers the best summary yet.
—Bill McKibben, Boston Globe
A measured, elegant, brief book that functions as a perfect primer on global warming. It might be the most important book you read this year.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sober, detailed, and alarming without being alarmist.
—Newsweek
About the Author
Long known for her insightful and thoughtful political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as a groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006, Kolbert cuts through the competing rhetoric and political agendas to elucidate what is really going on with the global environment and asks what, if anything, can be done to save our planet. Now updated and with a new afterword, Field Notes from a Catastrophe is the book to read on the greatest challenge facing the world today. (From the back cover of Field Notes from a Catastrophe. Bloomsbury USA, 2007.)