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Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (61 entries) : 134 images
Language
English
Description
This highly acclaimed atlas distills the vast science of climate change, providing a reliable and insightful guide to this rapidly growing field. Since the 2006 publication of the first edition, climate change has climbed even higher up the global agenda. This new edition reflects the latest developments in research and the impact of climate change, and in current efforts to mitigate and adapt to changes in the worlds weather.
4) Tsunami!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Tsunami! describes how earthquakes and volcanoes cause deadly waves, the devastation they inflict on communities and the environment, and why they are so difficult to predict."--
5) Hurricane!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Hurricane! describes how and where hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons happen."--
Author
Publisher
Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
167 pages
Language
English
Description
"With catastrophic global warming already baked into the climate system, today's children face a future entirely unlike that of their parents. Yet how can we maintain hope and make a difference in the face of overwhelming evidence of the climate crisis? Help is at hand. Written by Harriet Shugarman - the Climate Mama and trusted advisor to parents - How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change provides tools and strategies for parents to explain...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A noted environmental journalist discusses the possible ecological consequences beyond global warming resulting from modern human activity and describes the possibility of massive instability and climate swings, including a possible return to ice ages of the past.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xix, 300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet?more threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans...
10) Volcano!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Volcano! describes how and why volcanic eruptions occur."--
11) Energy Sources
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Energy Sources examines our reliance on fossil fuels and their impact on the environment; the pros and cons of nuclear energy; the debate about biofuels; harnessing energy from the Sun, wind, and water; and energy in the future, from hydrogen fuel cells to solar power from space."--
13) The story of more: how we got to climate change and where to go from here : adapted for young adults
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1240L
Physical Desc
viii, 199 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A young adult adaptation of Hope Jahren's nonfiction work, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"My days of dark green euphoria is an irreverent, witty, provocative novel in which a hilarious and charming eco-anxious millennial temporarily escapes the harsh realities of the twenty-first century when she falls under the spell of her boyfriend's mother's gigantic carbon footprint -- and must discover how to find her balance again as she risks losing her career, her best friend, and her identity. Winner of the 2019 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
336 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"From a writer and climate-change expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant big-picture reckoning with the reasons for our shocking failure to this point, focusing on the malign power of key business interests, and arguing that those same interests could flip this story very quickly, if a looming economic catastrophe doesn't happen first. Eugene Linden wrote his first big cover story on climate change,...
Author
Publisher
Cicada Books
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
110 unnumbered pages : illustrations (colour) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The terrifying effects of a warming planet are impossible to ignore, but sometimes it's hard to pick through the facts and to understand exactly what's happening and how. This book of bright, bold infographics illuminates the realities of climate change in hard numbers, digestible data and vivid visualizations. How will rising sea levels affect us? What is the impact of meat on the planet? What industries create the most emissions? How do renewable...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 p.)
Language
English
Description
"At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world-from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef-Doherty illuminates birds' role as an...
Author
Series
Publisher
Icon
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xvii, 174 pages : illustration ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climate emergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep this side of the 1.5�C dangerous climate change guardrail. The upshot is that we can no longer dodge the arrival of disastrous, all-pervasive climate breakdown that will come as a hammer blow to global society and economy"--
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