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

Label
The global warming reader : a century of writing about climate change
Title
The global warming reader
Title remainder
a century of writing about climate change
Statement of responsibility
edited with an introduction by Bill McKibben
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Collection of seminal texts on climate change from the phenomenon's discovery in the late 19th century to the present. Divided into three parts--Science, Politics, and Impact--this book presents opposing viewpoints, including essays and excerpts by scientists, politicians, novelists, religious leaders and others
Cataloging source
BTCTA
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
QC981.8.G56
LC item number
G58199 2012
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
McKibben, Bill
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Global warming
  • Global warming
  • Global warming
  • Global environmental change
  • Global warming
  • Climatic changes
Label
The global warming reader : a century of writing about climate change, edited with an introduction by Bill McKibben
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Reprint. Originally published: New York : OR Books, 2011
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-415) and index
Contents
  • 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 concensus on climate change
  • Naomi Oreskes
  • Target atmosphere CO2 : where should humanity aim
  • James Hansen et al.
  • On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature on the ground
  • Causes of the Russian heat wave and Pakistani floods
  • Jeff Masters
  • from
  • Earth in the balance
  • Al Gore
  • "The battle to control 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
  • Svante Arrhenius
  • 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 artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature
  • 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, then busy
  • Bill McKibben
  • G.S. Callendar
  • 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
  • Carbon dioxide exchange between atmosphere and ocean and the question of an increase of atmospheric CO2 during the past decades
  • Bill McKibben
  • John 5:1-9
  • Sally Bingham
  • Climate change : 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
  • Roger Revelle and Hans E. Suess
  • David Breashears and E.O. Wheeler
  • Climate change and agriculture
  • Vandana Shiva
  • Images
  • Gary Braasch
  • The darkening sea : what carbon emissions are doing to the ocean
  • Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Nepal's farmers on the front line of global climate change
  • John Vidal
  • The keeling curve
  • Dave Keeling
Control code
ocn755697736
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
425 p.
Isbn
9780143121893
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780143121893
  • (OCoLC)755697736
Label
The global warming reader : a century of writing about climate change, edited with an introduction by Bill McKibben
Publication
Note
Reprint. Originally published: New York : OR Books, 2011
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-415) and index
Contents
  • 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 concensus on climate change
  • Naomi Oreskes
  • Target atmosphere CO2 : where should humanity aim
  • James Hansen et al.
  • On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature on the ground
  • Causes of the Russian heat wave and Pakistani floods
  • Jeff Masters
  • from
  • Earth in the balance
  • Al Gore
  • "The battle to control 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
  • Svante Arrhenius
  • 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 artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature
  • 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, then busy
  • Bill McKibben
  • G.S. Callendar
  • 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
  • Carbon dioxide exchange between atmosphere and ocean and the question of an increase of atmospheric CO2 during the past decades
  • Bill McKibben
  • John 5:1-9
  • Sally Bingham
  • Climate change : 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
  • Roger Revelle and Hans E. Suess
  • David Breashears and E.O. Wheeler
  • Climate change and agriculture
  • Vandana Shiva
  • Images
  • Gary Braasch
  • The darkening sea : what carbon emissions are doing to the ocean
  • Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Nepal's farmers on the front line of global climate change
  • John Vidal
  • The keeling curve
  • Dave Keeling
Control code
ocn755697736
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
425 p.
Isbn
9780143121893
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780143121893
  • (OCoLC)755697736

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