Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming

Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming. Gale E. Christianson. 1999. 305 pp. $25.00. Hardbound. Walker Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8027-1346-7.

For years now we have been reading about the seemingly endless debate concerning the issue of global warming and its attribution to humankind. Hardly a week goes by without some extreme weather event being portrayed in the media as an example of what we have to look forward to in a world warmed by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. These inevitably generate a deluge of letters to the editor or opinion editorial pieces pointing out that it is hubris to believe that humankind can affect the earth's climate and that higher levels of …