Earth Systems:
A Second Opinion for Our Planet
Lee R. Kump
He Knew He Was Right The Irrepressible Life of James Lovelock and Gaia / James Lovelock In Search of Gaia by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin Allen Lane, London, 2009. 262 pp. £20, C$42. ISBN 9781846140167. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009. 286 pp. $24.95, £16.95. ISBN 9780691137506.
The Vanishing Face of Gaia A Final Warning by James Lovelock Allen Lane, London, 2009. 199 pp. £20, C$34. ISBN 9781846141850. Basic Books, New York, 2009. 288 pp. $25. ISBN 9780465015498.
The prolific Gribbins provide a short, authorized biography of Lovelock. In his own latest book, Lovelock argues that climatic change is likely to lead to a hotter Earth that is able to sustain only a small fraction of the world's current population.
The reviewer is at the Department of Geosciences and Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
E-mail: lkump{at}psu.edu
