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Publisher
Taylor Trade
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In this controversial new book Australia's leading geologist makes the case that carbon dioxide is just one of many factors that drive climate-- and a relatively insignificant one at that. Heaven and Earth engagingly and comprehensively synthesizes what we know-- or think we know-- about the sun, earth, ice, water, and air. Heaven and Earth is a powerful argument against many of the punitive-- and expensive-- laws that are now being passed to 'protect'...
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Language
English
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Description
"We all sense it--something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once--and it is dizzying. In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike anything he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get...
Author
Publisher
Edward Elgar
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This text on the economics of climate change and climate policy can be used at three different levels - advanced undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral. It covers the critical issues and clearly identifies the specific sections each level of reader should explore.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. In this book, readers meet the most prominent deniers while dissecting their credentials, arguments, and lack of objectivity. James Lawrence...
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Dangerous Imagination, Silent Assimilation is a no-excuses conversation about the social engineering of the twentieth century, how it led to our planet being terraformed almost without our knowledge and what we can do about it" --
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Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Scientists agree that climate change is at least partially to blame for extreme heat. They agree Earth's current warming trend is not a natural event. Instead, they believe human activity is the leading cause. Heatwaves across the contiguous United States have occurred more often and lasted longer since the 1960s, which is consistent with a warming climate due to climate change"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A declaration of independence, and a call for systemic change, from the generation that will be most impacted by climate change.
The millennial generation could be the first to experience the doomsday impacts of climate change-- and the last generation able to do something about them. Dembicki provides a wake-up call for the biggest challenge of our era, told through the stories of people fighting for their survival.
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Series
Worldwatch paper volume 160
Publisher
Worldwatch Institute
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
