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Title:

The global warming reader : a century of writing about climate change / edited with an introduction by Bill McKibben.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

421 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Global warming.
Global environmental change.
Climatic changes.
Global warming--Environmental aspects.
Global warming--Government policy.
Global warming--Political aspects.
Global warming--Social aspects.

Other Authors:

McKibben, Bill.

Notes:

"First published in the United States of America by OR Books, 2011; published by Penguin Books, 2012" -- T. p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [405] - 415) and index.

Contents:

On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground / Svante Arrhenius -- The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature / G.S. Callendar -- Carbon dioxide exchange between atmosphere and ocean and the question of an increase of atmospheric CO2 during the past decades / Roger Revelle and Hans E. Suess -- The Keeling Curve / Dave Keeling -- Statement of Dr. James Hansen / James Hansen -- Summary for policymakers: the science of climate change / IPCC Working Group I -- The "anthropocene" / Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer -- The scientific consensus on climate change / Naomi Oreskes -- Target atmospheric CO2: where should humanity aim? / James Hansen et al. -- Causes of the Russian heat wave and Pakistani floods / Jeff Masters -- from "Earth in the balance" / Al Gore -- "The battle for control of reality" from "The heat is on" / Ross Gelbspan -- Remarks at the Kyoto climate change conference / Al Gore -- "Is your stomach too full?" from "Earth odyssey" / Mark Hertsgaard -- The science of climate change: Senate floor statement / James M. Inhofe -- from "State of fear" / Michael Crichton -- from "An inconvenient truth" / Al Gore -- from "The green collar economy: how one solution can fix our two biggest problems / Van Jones -- Climate generation: the evolution of the Energy Action Coalition's strategy / Billy Parish -- To really save the planet, stop going green / Mike Tidwell -- Climate rage / Naomi Klein -- This is fucked up--it's time to get mad, and then busy / Bill McKibben -- The green generation / Adrienne Maree Brown -- The population myth / George Monbiot -- Global warming twenty years later: tipping points near / James Hansen -- Speech at Klimaforum / Mohamed Nasheed -- from "The end of nature" / Bill McKibben -- John 5:1-9 / Sally Bingham -- Climage chage: an evangelical call to action / The Evangelical Climate Initiative -- An abrupt climate change scenario and its implications for United States National Security / Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall -- "The briefing" from "Field notes on democracy: listening to grasshoppers" / Arundhati Roy -- Images / David Breashears and E.O. Wheeler -- Climate change and agriculture / Dr. Vandana Shiva -- Images / Gary Braasch -- The darkening sea: what cabon emissions are doing to the ocean / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Nepal's farmers on the front line of global climate change / John Vidal.

ISBN:

0143121898
9780143121893

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)