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[2019]
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32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Rapidly increasing sea levels are endangering coastal wildlife and contributing to major floods worldwide. In the future, some coastal cities may even be underwater. But what is behind this dramatic shift? Learn all about the role climate change plays in rising ocean levels and what effects this will have on our watery planet."--Amazon.com.
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2016.
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4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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No place on Earth is sage from severe storms. Tour the world's wildest weather--and learn how to protect yourself from it--with a storm-chasing, prize-winning meteorologist.
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2018.
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223 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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Greenland, one of the last truly wild places, contains a treasure trove of information on Earth's early history embedded in its pristine landscape. Over numerous seasons, William E. Glassley and two fellow geologists traveled there to collect samples and observe rock formations for evidence to prove a contested theory that plate tectonics, the movement of Earth's crust over its molten core, is a much more ancient process than some believed. As their...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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xviii, 237 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
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"The battle against climate change is no longer just an environmental or social issue. As shareholders demand corporations protect assets against climate change and the economic impact of environmental disasters suck billions of dollars out of the economy, capitalism itself has become an ally. The economic impact of climate change is rattling the foundation of our economy at its very core. It's blowing up centuries-old industries from automobiles...
88) Fixing climate: what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it
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Pub. Date
2008
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xvi, 253 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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An unconventional study of the issue of global warming focuses on the root cause of the problem--the influx of carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere--and argues that only the development of new technologies can reduce carbon dioxide output.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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360 pages ; 22 cm
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"After decades of stability, climate stresses, never far from the surface, are bringing droughts, crop failures, and massive storms. The world's end--avoided once, centuries before--seems likely to succeed the second time. Scientist Sarah Nahanni has a possible solution, but the math is daunting and the number of mathematicians willing or even able to solve the equations is very small. With the ancient satellites failing and the roads filled with...
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"Building a Resilient Tomorrow does not dwell on overhyped descriptions of apocalyptic climate scenarios, nor does it travel down well-trodden paths surrounding the politics of reducing carbon emissions. Instead, it starts with two central facts: climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects. While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face, this pragmatic guide focuses on solutions-some gradual...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, chart ; 23 cm
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"Reeling from a crisis of hope, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd seeks out today's leading climate thinkers, from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. "If it's the end of the world, now what?" he asks, as he steers us through our climate angst in search of a "better catastrophe.""--
94) Denial
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
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The year is 2052. Global warming has had a predictably devastating effect: Venice submerged, cyclones in Oklahoma, megafires in South America. Yet it could be much worse. Two decades earlier, the global protest movement known as the Upheavals helped break the planet's fossil fuel dependency, and the subsequent Nuremberg-like Toronto Trials convicted the most powerful oil executives and lobbyists for crimes against the environment. Not all of them....
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race. Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach on wild spaces, fear, arrogance, and greed have shaped the way that people view these regenerative events and have given rise to misinformation. The peril that...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Over millions of years, organisms in Antarctica--one of the most extreme environments on Earth--have evolved in amazing ways that enable them to thrive on the ice, in the ice, and under the ice. How is climate change affecting the creatures that live in this frozen world? Even in the intensely cold, windy, and dry environment of Antarctica, a wide variety of wildlife--from the massive swarms of krill in the Southern Ocean to the throngs of penguins...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xv, 249 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (one color) ; 24 cm
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"An epic bicycle journey across the American hinterland that explores the challenges of climate change alongside a diverse array of American voices."--Amazon.com.
98) Jelly
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You get over the fear of death and the smell of fish; boredom is an issue, sure, but it's not the main one. The biggest problem with being trapped on a jellyfish is not being able to get away from everyone. Martha and everyone else living there don't know how they got there or how long they've been there or where they're going. They can't escape-- but they're going to try. Or die trying. -- adapted from jacket
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"During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led to the development of the colonial sugar plantation as a uniquely profitable kind of commerce. In a time when issues of race and social justice have arisen with pressing urgency, the book explains how the plantation's extraordinary profitability relied on a production system that literally worked the slaves to death, creating an insatiable appetite...
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