In ''Science As A Contact Sport'' Stephen Schneider, Nobel Prize-winning climatologist and co-author of the ''IPCC Commission Reports'' that brought the crisis of climate change to the world's attention, reveals the years of battles between scientists and policymakers that have stymied real progress on global warming policy, makes a case for scientific literacy, and lays out a plan for what we need to do to address climate change in years to come. Taking readers behind the scenes and back in time, Schneider unravels an astonishing scientific mystery as one by one, scientists begin to understand the very real threat of massive global climate change. In disciplines as diverse as anthropology and oceanography, a community of passionate scientists quickly grasped that Earth's chemistry was changing at a rapid clip, and that no one really had the tools to predict the outcome of that change. Seizing on that unpredictability, special interest groups and policymakers stymied action. ''Science as a Contact Sport'' shows how the findings of science have been used and misused to influence government policy.Schneider has witnessed the 'highjacking' of energy policy by every Republican administration since Regan and testified before Congressional committees since 1976 about the possible outcomes of climate change. Looking toward the future of the planet, asking thoughtful questions about how the nations of the world can move forward together to ameliorate an impending disaster.