Jeff Goodell is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of five books, including How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate, which won the 2011 Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit. Goodell's previous books include Sunnyvale, a memoir about growing up in Silicon Valley, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future.
Praise for The Water Will Come "Jeff Goodell's latest contribution
to the environmental cause paints an eye-opening portrait of
humankind's dilemma as temperatures -- and sea levels -- continue
to rise. The Water Will Come brings together compelling anecdotes
from all over the globe and shocking expert assessments that should
make the world's few remaining skeptics reconsider. Read this book
for a reminder of the stakes -- right now, today -- and why we have
to work harder, faster, to address the climate challenge."--John F.
Kerry
"The Water Will Come is an important book, regardless of where you
live. It moves the conversation from a nebulous debate on 'climate
change' to a concrete set of data points that signal danger in the
rising tides."--BookBrowse, Editor's Choice
"[The Water Will Come] is a well-rounded, persuasive survey.... A
frightening, scientifically grounded, and starkly relevant look at
how climate change will affect coastal cities."--Kirkus, Starred
Review
"[A] vivid mix of science, history and sociology... Goodell talks
about climate change and what it means to every person on the
planet in a way that will engage even the non-Nova crowd."--USA
Today
"A deeply reported and very well-written account of how rising sea
levels are reshaping our world. Goodell has written a powerful call
to arms that is never preachy but is a very timely reminder that we
ignore how climate change is raising sea levels only at great risk
to our way of life."--Peter Bergen, author of United States of
Jihad and Manhunt
"A journey to the cities and towns around the globe that are trying
to figure out how to adapt to sea levels that are continuing to
rise."--Business Insider
"A must-read... Goodell writes with insight and compassion, giving
us a primer we can use to persuade neighbors, friends, and
politicians to take action now."--The Leonardo DiCaprio
Foundation
"A very sobering read, underscoring how unprepared we all are for
climate change."--Nicholas Kristoff
"An urgent, clear-eyed and downright terrifying account... Each
chapter is scrupulously researched yet written in the clean and
accessible style of a journalist who's perfected his craft...
Persuasive, timely and vividly constructed, The Water Will Come
might be one of the most essential reads of the year."--Shelf
Awareness
"Cogent reportage on a world going under."--Nature
"Even if we could halt further growth in greenhouse gas emissions
today, we would remain locked into several centuries of sea level
rise ahead. Jeff Goodell's The Water Will Come shows us how this
stark truth will unfold, right down to individual human
experiences."--Laurence C. Smith, author of The World in 2050
"For people who want to learn more about climate change, rising sea
levels and what it means for our future, read The Water Will
Come."--Chris Hayes, MSNBC
"Goodell offers some welcome, practical prescriptions, including
relocating airports, reconfiguring pumping systems, and designing
big public squares that can collect and drain water to avoid
flooding."--The National Book Review
"Goodell's journalistic writing style is engaging and will be
accessible to a wide audience...[a] thought-provoking tour through
our watery futures offers both challenge and inspiration."--Jessica
Lamond, Science
"If there was ever a moment when Americans might focus on drainage,
this is it. But this fine volume (which expands on [Goodell's]
reporting in Rolling Stone) concentrates on the slower and more
relentless toll that water will take on our cities and our psyches
in the years to come."--Bill McKibben, The Washington Post
"Immensely engaging--but frequently terrifying."--Yale Climate
Connections
"In this engaging book, environmental writer Goodell points out
that while sea levels have always risen and fallen, the current
rise is driven primarily by the dramatically accelerating melting
of the arctic ice caps, and with so many cities on seashores, this
will be devastating."--Booklist, Starred Review
"Jeff Goodell has taken on some of the most important issues of our
time, from coal mining to geoengineering. In The Water Will Come,
he explains the threat of sea level rise with characteristic rigor
and intelligence. The result is at once deeply persuasive and
deeply unsettling."--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning and
New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction
"Once you've read an excellent book about climate change, which
Jeff Goodell's The Water Will Come most certainly is, you can never
unremember the facts... Goodell has been writing about climate
change for many years... he's the real deal, committed and making
house calls."--Jennifer Senior, The New York Times
"One of the most important books of the year... A potent
examination not of whether seas will rise in our lifetimes, but of
the fact that they will rise."--The Sierra Club
"Sea level rise is coming. We know this as clearly as we know
thermometer measurements, the melting point of ice, and the law of
thermal expansion. Jeff Goodell's book cuts through the fossil-fuel
lies, and is a warning I hope we heed while there's still
time."--Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
"This harrowing, compulsively readable, and carefully researched
book lays out in clear-eyed detail what Earth's changing climate
means for us today, and what it will mean for future generations...
It's a thriller in which the hero in peril is us."--John Green
"This important [book] is absolutely brilliant scientific
journalism, and certainly is a must read for all of the world's
citizens."--Forbes
"While keenly observing and poignantly describing rapidly changing
coastal ecologies, Goodell also reports with empathy and
acumen."--Los Angeles Review of Books
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