The Carbon War Global Warming at the End of the Oil Era

The excessive burning of oil, gas and coal is raising our planet's thermostat to unacceptable levels. And an unprecedented catalogue of weather-related disasters - storms, floods, droughts and fires - suggest that the earth's early warning system is already on alert. The 1990s saw a dramatic struggle to achieve international agreement on significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, which culminated in the Kyoto Protocol. An eye-witness to its key events, Jeremy Leggett, university academic turned environmental activist and solar-energy entrepreneur, is in a unique position to tell the inside story of the battle to avert ecological catastrophe.