Given the degree of supposition and the sketchy plans for solutions, a more apt title for this book would be The Carbon Hunch
There are many things Dieter Helm's book, The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong - and How to Fix it, does well, such as articulating the urgency and scale of climate change the challenge and the lamentable lack of action at an international level. He identifies coal as the major climate threat, and I wholeheartedly agree – it is a superb source of energy, there is still massive amounts of it and it's cheap. Its environmental impact, however, is without parallel and Helm also clearly highlights the deaths and ill-health it has caused.
He believes gas, emitting half as much as coal, is the most sensible alternative at the moment. But it is currently expensive in the the UK and difficult to predict what will happen in the future.
See full Review: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/jan/21/dieter-helm-carbon-crunch
See other Reviews:
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300186598
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21564815-climate-change-needs-better-regulation-not-more-political-will
http://www.simonmaxwell.eu/blog/review-of-the-carbon-crunch-by-dieter-helm.html
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