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Author
Publisher
HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 314 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the devastating and unprecedented events of Hurricane Sandy, using it to explain the Earth's changing climate and how to protect cities and coastal areas from the effects of huge storms.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this cautionary but optimistic book, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac--the architects of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement--tackle arguably the most urgent and consequential challenge humankind has ever faced: the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity. In The Future We Choose, the authors outline two possible scenarios for the planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris targets...
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
214 p. : ill., graphs, maps, chart ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An accessible explanation of climate change summarizes its science while sharing insights into its implications for the future, answering key questions from the role of fossil fuels to the economic costs of reducing carbon emissions.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 329 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes this work, a book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
322 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, scientifically based forecast of our planet in forty years, distilling cutting edge research into these world-changing forces: demographic trends; natural resource demand; climate change; globalization"--Jacket flap.
What kind of world are we leaving for our children and grandchildren? Geoscientist Laurence Smith draws on the latest global modeling research to construct a sweeping thought experiment on what our world will be like in 2050....
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 180 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will be 'locked in', essentially forever. A human-driven, planet-wide thaw has already begun, and will continue to impact Earth's climate and sea level for...
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