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Nature 452, 31 (6 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/452031a; Published online 5 March 2008

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Climate change for the masses

David S. Reay1

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Hot Topic

by Gabrielle Walker & David King

Bloomsbury: 2008. 309 pp. £9.99
Harvest Books
: 2008. 288 pp. $14.00

Two years ago, I wrote in these pages about the need for a book on climate change that could engage millions, equivalent to the forcefulness and accessibility of Rachel Carson's classic Silent Spring. Since that time, the Stern Review, the Fourth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth have joined the groaning shelves of works about global warming.