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Weighing in at 3.7 pounds (not shippable outside of the United States) and in 320 large format pages, "Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change" offers an overize exploration and look at the impending crisis that the delusional Bush so blissfully ignores as he steers us toward his beloved Armageddon.

The photographs in this book offer an astounding visual background to the global warming crisis, its impact, and some incipient solutions.

It also offers an abudance of text, offset by incisive quotations, that wrap around the four-color photographs.

As with "An Incovenient Truth," "Global Warning" begins with the premise that time is running out, down to the hour glass on the front and back covers.

It's an important and readable book for anyone who wants to "see" their way through the intricacies of the man-made catastrophe that awaits us and our planet, while reading an informative accompanying text.

The author, Paul Brown, has 16 years as experience as the environment correspondent at the Guardian of London.

The publsher of "Global Warning" notes that "it delivers a clarion call to action by showing how each of us can do our part by saving the planet."

From Publishers Weekly:

Explaining the science of global warming in layman's language, this hard-hitting assessment shows why scientists predict that it could reach the point of no return within the next 10 years. The global economy, and civilization itself, may collapse unless greenhouse-gas emissions are controlled, warns Brown, a correspondent for the Guardian (U.K.). He bolsters the argument with stunning color photographs showing the effects of humanity's abuse of the planet, such as traffic-clogged cities, rising sea levels, desertification, dust storms, disappearing ice sheets and glaciers, and the devastation of powerful hurricanes. Some of the most alarming images are views from space that show the infinite number of electric lights used by developed countries at night. Brown denounces politicians who are too afraid of losing votes to take action to prevent the coming cataclysm, and he reserves special condemnation for George W. Bush. He finds hopeful signs, however, in the surprising number of developing countries, including Costa Rica and Papua, New Guinea, that have pledged to tackle climate change; many countries, including Denmark, Norway and Japan, are replacing fossil fuels with new technologies such as wind and solar power, geothermal power plants, and wave and undersea turbines. Brown's persuasive book drives home the message that the whole world needs to follow suit without delay.

With a foreword by Gerd Leipold, Executive Director of Greenpeace International.

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