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A fresh take on climate change by a renowned journalist driven to protect his daughter, your kids, and the next generation wholl inherit the problem For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming for outlets including the?New Yorker, NPR, Time, Vanity Fair, and The Nation. But the full truth did not hit home until he became a father and, soon thereafter, learned that climate change had already arriveda century earlier than forecastwith impacts bound to worsen for decades to come. Hertsgaards daughter Chiara, now five yea rs 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 mounting climate disruption. HOT is a fathers cry against climate change, but most of the book focuses on s olutions, offering a deeply reported blueprint for how all of usas parents, communities, companies and countriescan navigate this unavoidable new era.