Peter Stott's Hot Air was a fascinating insight into how difficult it can be to publish even the most basic paper when it comes to climate change, and how far politicians, countries and climate deniers are willing to go to avoid the true risks that threaten our planet.

On the whole I found this engaging - I did tune out in places, but that's not the book's fault, I suspect this would've been a much better book for me to read rather than listen to. The narrator was well-chosen too.

I really felt Stott's frustrations throughout this. There's a scene where bickering about the wording of climate change statements carries on until the early hours of the morning, and I definitely felt sorry for Stott and all the other scientists involved! There was also an interesting look into Climategate (a scientist's emails are deliberately leaked, and then misinterpreted to seem like findings on climate change were falsified), and how little the media does to properly cover climate change that I found really interesting too.

I do wish there had been more on the 'politics' behind climate change denial, though. There's so many links (often shady!) between politicians and big corporations who have something to gain from climate change denial, as well as plenty of both legitimate and morally questionable reasons why countries push back against countries of global warming, and i'd have liked them to be covered more here. i left with a sense of the scale of dissent towards climate change research, but not quite /why/ it was there.

Overall an accessible and interesting read - i'd definitely recommend if you're interested in the subject of climate change, global warming or science denial.