Product Description
Irreverent and entertaining, DOWN TO EARTH is filled with fact about global warming and its disastrous consequences, loads of photos and illustrations, as well as suggestions for how kids can help combat global warming in their homes, schools, and communities. Engagingly designed, DOWN TO EARTH will educate and empower, leaving readers with the knowledge they need to understand this problem and a sense of hope to inspire them into action.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 37 reviews)

This book is full of conclusions not based on scientific measurements by M. Smead (CA)

1 Stars
October 21, 2009
The error in the graph on page 18 has already been mentioned by several other reviewers. The book is full of erroneous conclusions with no basis in true scientific data. For example, it is a scientific fact that the oceans are cooling, not warming as claimed. This is from data gathered from actual scientific measurements instead of the flawed computer climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change (IPCC), a primary source for the authors. This is part of the grand plan to invent a global crisis that will lead to a world government body that will have the right and power to redistribute wealth (via taxes and fees on CO2 emissions) from wealthy developed countries to developing countries. This plan will come to fruition when Obama signs the Climate Change Treaty in Copenhagen this December.

As fake as the rest of them. by Troy J. Marchant (Los Angeles, CA)

1 Stars
June 17, 2009
I don't take anything serious coming from someone who openly admits she owns two homes, one on each coast, and regularly flies her private jet back and forth. Now she wants to capitalize on the myth of global warming? Typical global warming activist. They want you to change YOUR lifestyle, but they're really not interested in changing theirs. Plus, none of these people actually care about the earth. If anything, they only care about their own personal clean environment. They don't want to be inconvenienced.

And there you have it - the fundamental argument is "this is just fact, no matter what the facts say". by Deborah Gaydos (Near Pittsburgh, PA)

1 Stars
April 08, 2009
A prior review states: "I also can't help noticing what feels like a coordinated attack based on a single technical error, as if that discredited the FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE behind this book's premise, WHICH NO SERIOUS SCIENTISTS DOUBTS." (Caps added for emphasis.) The global-warming koolaid drinkers will just keep repeating the mantra that "man-made global warming is a proven fact" over and over again, and referring to the hundreds of highly-credentialed experts in the field who disagree with that fundamental premise as something OTHER THAN "serious scientists". I'm all in favor of being good stewards of our earth, but this kind of unsupported (and unsupportable) attack on the vast volume of evidence that isn't in lock-step with the agenda of the global warming theorists is pure propaganda. A scientifically legitimate book would consider both sides of the argument.

AGW Indoctrination for (Children of ) Dummies by PapaSmurerf (Bluegrass)

1 Stars
March 29, 2009
Apparently, freedom of speech also means freedom to wantonly propagandize children. The chart is only one of many misrepresentations or omissions of the science of global warming which, since 1998, is now cooling. Children can accept truth, but this book doesn't present much of it. The earth's climate is presented as static and unchanging (except for us darn humans & those flatulent bovines), contrary to acknowledging climate change as the dynamic force that it is; moving the climate of the earth between ice ages and climate optimums. (Though this change is constantly trending either warmer or cooler, it proceeds at such a snails pace to us short lived humans that we tend think of it as being stable.) The book proceeds from the assumption that all that needs to be known about global warming already is, that it is a given that humans are overwhelming an otherwise perpetually stable global climate. It's the kid version of 'the debate is over' without saying so directly but carries on with the pervasive assumption of it being so, from the first page to the last. If, as an adult, you can't be bothered to educate yourself by learning the facts of AGW first to see & understand how lacking and slanted this little tome is and don't care if you passively contribute to retard development of critical thinking of the children in your life, buy them this book and help perpetuate the mainstream 'dumbing down' of the next generation. But, if you want your child to be at the head of the class in their understanding of the science in climate change (and your own as well), you might try "The Sky is Not Falling" as a more balanced presentation of global warming.

Candy-coated junk science is still junk science. by M. SANCHEZ (PA)

1 Stars
August 21, 2008
The book was given as a gift to my son, who found it rather boring, quickly discarding it in favor of books about soccer and American football. This allowed a careful perusal of the book and its content, which, truth be told, I found lacking as well. In order for its suggestions to be relevant, in order for its impact to be felt, the science behind Ms. David's book has to be correct. As has already been mentioned, this book has a major flaw, which it has carried over from the related movie An Inconvenient Truth - e.g. the data sets for temperature and CO2 are reversed. When one learns that simple fact one discovers that temperature leads CO2 concentrations - not the other way around - which makes sense when one considers that CO2 is less soluble in water at higher temperatures. And the lag is fairly consistent and predictable between the two. That Ms. David, a non-scientist, has opted to perpetuate this rather glaring error suggests one of two things - either that she really is a vapid celebrity of little brain or that she perhaps has some other reason for inducing nightmares in children than the good of Planet Earth. It could be, perhaps, that she would like for us to forget about her jet-setting narcissistic lifestyle and her own huge carbon footprint - and also her opposition to renewable energy projects when they impede her view from Martha's Vineyard. Ms. David has stated many times that "the debate is over" - and for her it probably is, but our children will have to live with the results of the smothering policy initiatives she proposes as the solution to this non-existent problem. They will be affected by the inevitable reductions in standards of living in David's new era, where every Carbon atom is counted. The debate for the rest of us is NOT over - not by a long shot. Some of us remember what we learned about geology - that the carbon got underneath the ground somehow or other, and that it was floating around in the Earth's atmosphere at far higher levels than we see now (as evidenced by ice core data David does not mention). One star because zero was impossible to give.

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