While teaching at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Gordon Head Complex, Andrew J. Weaver wrote Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World (Penguin, 2008). It dispels obfuscation and charts media mood swings. [See review below]

For the general reader, Weaver also co-edited Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004), an examination Canadian weather and climate, Canada's response to the Kyoto Protocol and the adequacy of the Kyoto guidelines. It its publication, Weaver was Canada Research Chair in Atmospheric Science in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria.

In January of 2012, following Canada's withdrawal from the Kyoto Accord at the Durban Conference on Climate Change in December, Orca Book Publishers sent a copy of Weaver's book, Generation Us-The Challenge of Global Warming, to all 308 Members of Parliament.

Generation Us explains the phenomenon of global warming, outlines the threat it presents to future generations and offers a path toward solutions to the problem.

"We're concerned that too many of our politicians see climate change as a political problem, not the threat that it is to the very survival of future generations,"; said Orca's publisher Andrew Wooldridge. "Hopefully the book will provide a more complete analysis of the problem for at least some of our elected representatives.";

As the Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, Weaver was a team member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "Now more than ever it's become critically important that society-and especially our elected leaders-accept responsibility for global warming,"; Dr. Weaver said. "We've created the problem; we must now be part of the solution.";

Generation Us-The Challenge of Global Warming is published by Raven Books, an imprint of Orca Book Publishers, and is part of the Rapid Reads series, which features both fiction and nonfiction in short, high-interest, easy-read formats

[BCBW 2012] "Environment"