For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global
warming as a journalist, but the full truth did not hit home until
he became a father and, soon thereafter, learned that climate
change had already arrived, with impacts bound to worsen for
decades to come. Hertsgaard's daughter, now six years old, is part
of what he has dubbed "Generation Hot"--the two billion young
people worldwide who will spend the rest of their lives coping with
climate disruption. Drawing on reporting from around the world,
Hot" is as much a father's cry against climate change as a call to
action. Hertsgaard injects hope and solutions into a debate
characterized by doom and gloom, and he offers a blueprint for how
all of us--parents, communities, countries--can navigate an
unavoidable new era.