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ix, 465 pages ; 24 cm
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"Interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world. In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States...
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127 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
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"Kids can help save planet Earth with these positive, climate-focused missions from best-selling author and eco-warrior Martin Dorey. Our planet is in trouble! But with the help of this book, every kid can be a superhero making a difference. Sixty engaging missions guide readers through making carbon-saving changes in all aspects of their lives, from gardening to gadgets -- even a DIY water-saving device for their toilet tank! Aided by lively illustrations,...
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Longing to become a wizard so that he can magically fight global warming, young Diego realizes that he does not possess magical powers and considers other environmentally friendly careers, in a story complemented by scientific sidebars.
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x, 206 pages ; 22 cm
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"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change -- including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"--
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xi, 351 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the tactics that we've been told can slow climate change. But most of these recommendations are a result of a multi-pronged marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals. Fossil fuel companies have followed the example of other industries deflecting blame (think "guns don't kill people, people kill people")...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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USGS scientist Todd Atwood and his team explore why polar bears have been turning up in record numbers in northern Alaska in addition to the 40% decline in the polar bear population in the South Beaufort Sea since 2006, discovering connections with climate change and exploration for untapped fossil fuels.
Examines the yearly gathering of polar bears in Kaktovik, Alaska, and the effect of their presence on the local people.
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.
89) Arctic drift
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515 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to...
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xvi, 227 pages ; 24 cm
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A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the biosphere is now a global human protectorate and that its...
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1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Yellowstone is home to North America's most iconic wildlife, and every year these animals must survive the Thaw-one of the harshest seasonal changes on Earth when temperatures can swing from minus 40°F in winter to almost 100°F in summer. Learn how animals cope with this range, and witness the impact on individual families of wolves, grizzly bears, beavers, and great gray owls.
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Describes how global warming has made the Arctic's oil, gas, natural resources, and minerals more accessible and how competition between nations and corporate interests for control of the resources is endangering the Arctic's fragile ecosystems. --Publisher's description.
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THE ULTIMATUM IS IMPERATIVE- transform ourselves now or decline and perish as a result of the consequences of our own actions, a species suicide.
THE ULTIMATUM IS DUAL- we can produce our own extinction and that of other species through weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear, and/or environmental degradation, especially climate change.
The EQUILIBRA series begins with THE ULTIMATUM, the myriad ways Mother Earth is communicating to us the...
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How do we sustain infinite growth on a finite planet?
Expand the planet.
In Planet A, George J. Nasr offers an illuminating look at four simple keys that can unlock a sustainable path and empower a regenerative economy.
Modern civilization is like a superorganism. Its systems evolve and adapt to thrive in specific environments. But that's exactly the problem: we often build for the wrong environment. With cheap energy, we force our will on nature....
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Inspiring stories about people around Australia who are taking action on climate change, helping create a better future for our children and for the planet, while at the same time deepening connections with each other.
Millions of Australians are quietly freaking out about the state of the planet, and Claire O'Rourke is one of them. We know the science is bad-we're signing petitions, recycling our garbage and switching our light bulbs-and we know...
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I'm offering this simple handbook to you, full of exceptional ways to make many differences to improve various things on the planet, including Climate Change situations for anyone in the world who wants a reference book of suggestions for anything that can be done to help, regarding all kinds of efforts that many people are trying to make in many places everywhere.
After two years of studying how people can deal with Climate Change and some other...
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"Como consecuencia del crecimiento del consumo de combustibles fósiles, las emisiones de dióxido de carbono aumentaron y aumentarán exponencialmente, y al mismo ritmo seguirán sus concentraciones en la atmósfera. El resultado es un calentamiento global que amenaza con la extinción de especies más devastadora de los últimos millones de años y que, de persistir por mucho tiempo, hará de la superficie de la Tierra algo muy distinto de lo que...
98) Dead Heat
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Today's "extreme weather events" (record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and melting ice caps) foreshadow an increasingly unstable and dire future. Yet, despite all, the US government continues to reject the Kyoto Protocol, to deny the catastrophic consequences of oil dependency, and to define the politics of oil as the politics of U.S. unilateralism, domination, and war.
Dead Heat argues that justice-not rhetoric and "aid" but real developmental justice...
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THE LAYMAN'S GUIDE TO THE TRUTH ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND HOW WE CAN END IT This book is written for the general public, and explains the politically-charged and oftentimes confusing topic of global warming in terms that the average person can readily understand. It cuts through what is frequently self-serving propaganda and twisting of facts so that clarity can prevail. This book presents, in clear and concise language, a comprehensive and viable...
100) Climate Chaos?!
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A fun and cheerful way to consider the very serious subject of global warming. Written in a multiple-choice, trivia quiz format, through 71 questions (and answers), this book addresses many issues related to global warming. For added entertainment value, most questions have a silly (or absurd) answer choice in addition to the serious choices. The correct answers often go into greater detail about a particular question. The answers are supported by...
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