This scientifically sound, yet easily readable book provides the fundamentals necessary to understand today's energy and climate problems and provides possible answers based on current technology such as solar, water and geothermal power. Moreover, it introduces the reader to ne…
This scientifically sound, yet easily readable book provides the fundamentals necessary to understand today's energy and climate problems and provides possible answers based on current technology such as solar, water and geothermal power. Moreover, it introduces the reader to ne…
Eaarth: making a life on a tough new planet
McKibben's earliest warnings about global warming went largely unheeded. In this book, he argues that we can meet the challenges of a new "Eaarth"--Still recognizable but suddenly and violently out of balance--by building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down,…
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 th…
Global climate change: a primer
by Pilkey, Orrin H., Pilkey, Keith C., Fraser, Mary Edna
Overview: An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engage in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written dozens of books and articles explaining coastal processes to lay readers, and…
"This is the first comprehensive exploration of why human security is relevant to the Arctic and what achieving it can mean. Change in the Arctic is occurring at an unprecedented rate, placing an immense strain on the many factors that contribute to human well-being and security…
Lynas argues that we can sustain a world of nine billion at higher living standards than today, but only if we take a more scientific approach to recognizing the real ecological limits of Earth. And that means taking a clear-eyed, rational look at a host of issues such as organi…
"An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades. The history of the Earth's climate has been probed by drilling into polar ice sheets and sediment layers of the oceans' vast depths, and great advances have been made in comput…
"An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades. The history of the Earth's climate has been probed by drilling into polar ice sheets and sediment layers of the oceans' vast depths, and great advances have been made in comput…
"The polar regions have experienced some remarkable environmental changes in recent decades, such as the Antarctic ozone hole, the loss of large amounts of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean and major warming on the Antarctic Peninsula. The polar regions are also predicted to warm mo…
"Although some politicians, pundits, and members of the public do not believe it, global warming predictions by mainstream climate scientists have been remarkably accurate while those made by climate deniers have not. And if mainstream global warming predictions continue to prov…
This book provides an accessible introduction to key concepts that future forest managers will need to keep our most important renewable resource healthy and resilient. "Scientists tell us that climate change is upon us and the physical world is changing quickly with important …
This is a systematic examination by the best writers in a variety of fields working on issues of how climate change affects society, and how social, economic, and political systems can, do, and should respond.