Page after page, Behind the Curve demonstrates the profound tension between science and politics-or more accurately, the anxiety among scientists that their credibility would be torpedoed if they allowed themselves to be lured from the safe harbor of factual inquiry into the treacherous shoals of politics.
Chris Lydgate
Reed Magazine
An exhaustive look at scientific, political and ... Read moresocial responses to climate change, starting with the discovery of the greenhouse effect in 1958.
James Helmsworth
Willamette Week
Howe's take on the role of scientists as advocates for political action will be of interest to anyone concerned with the politics of climate change.
Martin Mahoney
Topograph
[E]xcellent...the first study to explore the links between climate science and postwar politics in depth.
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Public Books
As the debate rages on...read about it here.
Robert E. Hoopes
Wildlife Activist
In Howe's Behind the Curve we have a good story, and an instructive one. It is not the only story to tell about climate change and it won't be the last. But it is one that should be listened to.
Mike Hulme
Climatic Change
Fastidiously researched....there are no clear heroes and villains...Howe relates a multi-layered conflict that is leading us to a catastrophe of biblical proportions.
Nick Walker
South China Morning Post
Howe's strong insight into how individuals, institutions, and governments interact produces a fascinating yet distressing story, proving that despite its aspirations towards objectivity, applied science historically is a flawed, human tale approaching a classical tragedy.
Publisher's Weekly
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