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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard investigated climate change, but it took the birth of his daughter to bring the truth home. Another revelation came when an expert advised that, without doubt, global warming had arrived, more than a hundred years earlier than expected. Now, with his daughter and the next generation in mind, Hertsgaard delivers a resounding, motivating message of hope that will spur activism among parents, college students, and all...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Appears on list
Description
"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions." -- Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Full screen ed.
Description
When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam, and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than anything anyone has ever encountered: Mother Nature.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
English-language edition.
Description
"Encouraging and easily digestible, this illustrated nonfiction guide introduces children ages eight to twelve to the important topic of climate change with tips on 'How You Can Help' and citizen scientist activities. Filled with engaging big ideas that will inspire children to think about their role in keeping our world healthy, OUR WORLD OUT OF BALANCE details how humans have thrown the planet off-balance and ways we can work together to be part...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"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')...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Description
" Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54�F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career...
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[Second edition.]
Description
"The climate has changed many times throughout Earth's 4.5-billion-year history. But such changes have never happened as quickly as those happening today. In [this book], learn how the climate is changing, how scientists study that change, and why most of them think human activities are causing it." -- Back cover.
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[Second edition.]
Description
"Planet Earth is warming, causing climates to change. People and other living things experience these changes through the weather. In [this book], learn how weather happens and how global warming is changing it -- including global warming's effects on extreme weather." -- Back cover.
Author
Series
Carbon ideologies volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage." Over the course of four years Vollmann finds hollowed out towns with coal-polluted streams and acidified drinking water; makes covert visits to mountaintop removal mines; and offers documented accounts...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Ten years after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate to the forefront of mainstream culture, former Vice President Al Gore continues his fight to educate the next generation of climate champions. This follow-up shows that while the stakes have never been higher, the solutions to the climate crisis are still within our reach.
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
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.
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