Global Warming & Climate Change

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781364429492Author Jeremy LeggettFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Blurb IncPublisher Blurb Inc

Join journalist Devi Lockwood as she bikes around the world collecting personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are changing communities. It's official: 2020 will be remembered as the year when apocalyptic climate predictions...

We are the only species that uses fire. It has determined how we have made our home on this planet and it has propelled us to the role of the dominant species in the biosphere. But at the heart of contemporary climate change is the process of combustion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143121893Author Bill McKibbenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 366gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

In our post-truth world, there's only one place to turn to if we want to live in reality: science. And the research on climate change is clear: It's real, it threatens us all, and human activity is the primary cause. This essential handbook dismantles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807015766Author Aviva ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

When the sciences and the arts begin to work together, a powerful force is created. This anthology was founded upon the belief that words have the power to change. Through poetry, photography and art, creatives across the globe, from the age of 8 to 80,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593543368Author Edward HumesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 471gDimensions(mm)...

Melting glaciers, suffering polar bears, rising oceans- these are just a few of the climate change crisis myths debunked by noted aerospace expert Larry Bell in this explosive new book. With meticulous research, Bell deflates these and other climate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739535902Author Lyndsey CroalFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Shoreline of Infinity PublicationsPublisher Shoreline of Infinity...

Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts...

Vast swathes of the current economic system have to be dismantled to secure humanity's future. Until recently that was thought impossible. Covid-19 proves this wrong. It is possible to shut polluting businesses overnight and pay people during a...

This timely Handbook recognizes the emergence of climate change as the defining topic of our time. With public climate discourse growing more urgent every year, this Handbook brings together international experts from different economic disciplines to...

The science is conclusive: to avoid irreversible climate collapse, the burning of all fossil fuels will have to end in the next decade. In this concise and highly readable intervention, Ashley Dawson sets out what is required to make this momentous...

If you are a decent human being who believes in science, then IFLScience! How to F***ing Save the Planet is an absolutely essential read. It is easy to become overwhelmed by the bleak reality of impending climate crisis. However, this book is an...

During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725285828Author Philip ClaytonFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739667603Author Tony CartwrightFormat PaperbackImprint Vital PressPublisher Vital Press

Providing a concise, up-to-date presentation of current knowledge of climate change and its implications for society as a whole, this new edition has been thoroughly updated and extended to include the latest information. The text describes the...

An essential book that comes to grips with the events that will determine the fate of the Earth This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047487Author Neta C. CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

What is artificial intelligence? What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? How does AI affect the SDGs?Artificial Intelligence has a real impact on our lives and on our environment, and the Sustainable Development Goals enable us to evaluate...

This report summarizes insights on transparency and integrity in sustainable finance markets shared at a series of webinars hosted by the Asian Development Bank and State Street Global Advisors.The report provides an overview of policy and market...

Climate change is here. We are in the middle of it and cannot turn a deaf ear to the alarm bells that are sounding ever more compellingly. The impact of unbridled greenhouse gas emissions is incontrovertibly proven and clearly measurable: the warming of...

An 800-CEO-READ "Editor's Choice" March 2019 How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate Crisis In order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have to go from spending carbon...

In 2000, a transformative climate-driven “megadrought” swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river’s two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty million people. Outside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789360451714Author Rajan MehtaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Westland Publications LimitedPublisher Westland Publications Limited

Climate change confronts us with our most pressing challenges today. The global consensus is clear that human activity is mostly to blame for its harmful effects, but there is disagreement about what should be done. While no shortage of proposals from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807084885Author Andreas KarelasFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593542514Author The Carbon Almanac NetworkFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 958gDimensions(mm)...

Climate change policy has typically emphasized mitigation, calling for reducing emissions and shifting away from fossil fuels. Yet while these efforts have floundered, floods, wildfires, droughts, and other disasters are becoming more frequent and potent...

This book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level. Francesca Rosignoli begins by exploring the conceptual and complex issues...

The goal of this primer is to raise awareness, knowledge and understanding amongst 16-19-year-old students of climate-linked changes in nature and biodiversity affecting the plants and animals in our seas, coastlines, lakes and terrestrial habitats. It...

This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593082133Author Peter FrankopanFormat PaperbackPage Count 944Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 896gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228831341Author Ronald Paul BarmbyFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558498693Author Raymond S. BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

While today's Greenland is largely covered in ice, in the time of the dinosaurs the area was a lushly forested, tropical zone. Tropical Arctic tracks a ten-million-year window of Earth's history when global temperatures soared and the vegetation of the...

From Nathaniel Rich, author of Losing Earth, comes a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing. We live in a time when scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential...