David Lipsky spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment...Lipsky's book is a project of maximum ambition. He retells the entire climate story, from the dawn of electricity to the dire straits of our present day [and] makes it page turning and appropriately infuriating. He says it up front: He wants this to be like a Netflix series, bingeable...The Parrot and the Igloo is a thriller of deceptions, side deals and close calls...What are the magic words? We have the facts and the wildfires to prove them. But climate communication-how to make those facts penetrate hearts and minds-seems always a losing battle. The denialists have always had sexier language, and they pay handsomely for it. Lipsky, with his cinematic account, has a good chance to grab back some of that ground. -- Zoe Schlanger - New York Times Book Review
One of the best books I've read in a decade...This is an extraordinary work...The book is so important, I want so many people to read it. Not just because it's important, but because it's so damned entertaining. Because this book is written with love. With love for the reader, with love for humanity, with a huge understanding gaze, a huge nod to the fact that we are in this together...I promise you this book is worth it. David Lipsky has delivered on the promise of his brilliance in this book. -- Brian Koppelman - The Moment
Lipsky, award-winning author of books about West Point and a road trip with David Foster Wallace, brings his wide-angle lens to bear on global warming in The Parrot and the Igloo. It's about not just the science of climate change but also the self-interested deniers constantly working to undermine it-more research is needed is a central strategy-and inflicting long-term damage in the process. Lipsky strives to make the book as readable as possible [and] his deep research and outrage continually shine through. -- Stuart Miller - Los Angeles Times
An achievement-it's an amazing read. -- Chris Jansing, MSNBC
David Lipsky's topic in The Parrot and the Igloo-his preoccupation, his obsession-is climate change. On page after page, in chapter after chapter, he sets out how the warming world came to know, and actually has known for decades, that the planet is on fire, that the implications are dire, that the timetable to fight climate change is finite...An excellent, approachable primer on the science of global warming [and] a dizzying account of how long we have known so much about an issue that means so much. -- David Shribman - Boston Globe
There may be no such thing as a definitive look at the climate crisis, but Lipsky tries to cover what 'a reasonably well-informed person might have been expected to know'...Lipsky masterfully recounts it with tempered outrage and a winking, wry wit. -- Eric Roston - Bloomberg News
The best nonfiction book I've read in decades. And the best book of its kind I've ever read. -- Darin Strauss, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Half a Life
It is a book that should be read by just about everyone...Sure, many of us have been angry about the collective failure to act on the facts of climate change for years, even for decades, but in The Parrot and the Igloo Lipsky lays bare the inner workings of the long-running countercurrent to common sense. Here a talented writer has painstakingly brought together facts, timelines, and personalities to portray a greater whole. And he has done so in a way that can only leave readers seething, wrathful, and ready for action. -- Bill Streever - E: The Environmental Magazine
Captivating and disturbing.... An important book that will leave your head shaking. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
I've got to thank bestselling author David Lipsky for pulling off a nifty trick in his latest book-making me laugh while reading about the potential end of human life on this planet...The Parrot and the Igloo gives readers the confidence that we can get through this treatise on such a somber subject as climate change...There's so much more to this book than a focus on the hideous history of climate-change denialism and the vile people who still traffic in it today...Lipsky connects all the dashes and dots [and] makes it easier to understand...As fascinating as the destination of denialism is, the author's stops along the way are equally enthralling. -- Christopher Lancette - Washington Independent Review of Books
Humor accompanies horrific truths in this vital look at the rise of climate change denial. With dry wit and novelistic flair, National Magazine Award winner Lipsky chronicles how harnessing electricity changed the world....[R]evelatory...sobering and incisive. Buoyed by thorough historical research, this is a first-rate entry. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Go beyond thrillers and take a chilling look at climate...Lipsky offers a history of climate science-and with it, climate denial-starring a large cast of swindlers, zealots, politicians and hucksters to get to the heart of virulent anti-science ideologies in America. -- Barbara VanDenburgh - USA Today
[An] unflinching look at this vital topic...It's a whirlwind tour, and Lipsky pulls it off...The beauty of this book is that it could expose a new audience to the crimes committed in the name of continued profit. So many climate books are preaching to the choir. -- John Schwarz - Undark
Award-winning author Lipsky takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of climate change denial...With the amount of research that went into this book, this can be considered the historical record to date. -- Booklist
What is the lure of anti-science rhetoric and climate change denial? That's the question at the heart of David Lipsky's The Parrot and the Igloo...Lipsky profiles not only the experts who sounded the alarm on the climate crisis but also those who lied about the science and misled the public. The book explores themes of ecological disinformation and greed through the stories of an incredible cast of characters. -- Toronto Life
A National Magazine Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author, Lipsky explains how antiscience sentiment became so strong in the United States by focusing on climate change denial. He lays bare the science of climate change, understood decades ago, then shows how fake news about products like aspirin created the tools for denier ideas to take hold. -- Library Journal
David Lipsky's The Parrot and the Igloo is so playful and sharp-one of my favorites of the year. -- Jeva Lange - Heatmap
Where can a person living on a melting planet turn, at least before the spaceship fleet is ready, for enlightenment? I'd start, and finish, with David Lipsky's brilliant epic The Parrot and the Igloo, which I devoured in a single, feverish, page-turning sitting, a perspective-altering dream, a story told in language as sharp and clear as the spring air we knew before all the carbon was released.... You will stare out the same windows when you've finished, but nothing will look the same. -- Rich Cohen, New York Times best-selling author of Sweet and Low and Monsters
