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Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change / Elizabeth Kolbert.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : London ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury, 2015Copyright date: new material ©2015Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 305 pages : illustrations, charts ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1620409887 (pbk.)
  • 9781620409886 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Man, nature, and climate change
Subject(s):
Contents:
Nature: Shishmaref, Alaska ; A warmer sky ; Under the glacier ; The butterfly and the toad -- Man: The curse of Akkad ; Floating houses ; Business as usual ; The day after Kyoto ; Burlington, Vermont ; Man in the Anthropocene -- Time: Ten years on ; The darkening sea ; Unconventional crude ; The island in the wind -- Further reading --Chronology -- Acknowledgments -- Selected bibliography and notes -- Index.
Summary: New Yorker writer Kolbert tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous course, now is the moment to salvage our future. By the end of the century, the world will likely be hotter than it's been in the last two million years, and the sweeping consequences of this change will determine the future of life on earth for generations to come. Kolbert approaches this monumental problem from every angle. She travels to the Arctic, interviews researchers and environmentalists, explains the science and the studies, draws frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations, unpacks the politics, and presents the personal tales of those who are being affected most--the people who make their homes near the poles and are watching their worlds disappear.--From publisher description.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 363.7387 K81 Available 33111008020972
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" ( Boston Globe ).

Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker . She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today.

But in the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding grows. Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She has added a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus three new chapters--on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral--making it, again, a must-read for our moment.

"First published in hardcover by Bloomsbury USA in 2006 ... updated with new material in 2015"--Title page verso.

"Revised and updated"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nature: Shishmaref, Alaska ; A warmer sky ; Under the glacier ; The butterfly and the toad -- Man: The curse of Akkad ; Floating houses ; Business as usual ; The day after Kyoto ; Burlington, Vermont ; Man in the Anthropocene -- Time: Ten years on ; The darkening sea ; Unconventional crude ; The island in the wind -- Further reading --Chronology -- Acknowledgments -- Selected bibliography and notes -- Index.

New Yorker writer Kolbert tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous course, now is the moment to salvage our future. By the end of the century, the world will likely be hotter than it's been in the last two million years, and the sweeping consequences of this change will determine the future of life on earth for generations to come. Kolbert approaches this monumental problem from every angle. She travels to the Arctic, interviews researchers and environmentalists, explains the science and the studies, draws frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations, unpacks the politics, and presents the personal tales of those who are being affected most--the people who make their homes near the poles and are watching their worlds disappear.--From publisher description.

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