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English
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"From the author of Good Morning, Midnight comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world. Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Finalist for The Los Angles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism
Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times • A Next Big Idea Book Club
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A noted environmental journalist discusses the possible ecological consequences beyond global warming resulting from modern human activity, and describes the possibility of massive instability and climate swings, including a possible return to ice ages of the past.
9) The story of more: how we got to climate change and where to go from here : adapted for young adults
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A young adult adaptation of Hope Jahren's nonfiction work, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here"--
10) Global warming
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Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Our planet is changing, and we need to understand why...Record temperatures, shrinking glaciers, dying coral reefs, and weather extremes are just a few of the ways in which global warming is affecting our precious blue planet. Learn what causes global warming and what needs to be done to correct it. Astonishing photos and detailed facts will help you understand the science of climate change and how it affects every part of Earth's fragile ecosystem."--Back...
11) The climate book
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders--to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster"--
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, makes them...
14) Censoring science: inside the political attack on Dr. James Hansen and the truth of global warming
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Regeneration is a response to the urgency of the climate crisis, a what-to-do manual for all levels of society, from individuals to national governments and everything and everyone in between. This four-color illustrated work describes a system of interlocking initiatives that aim to stem the climate crisis in one generation"--
16) Green technology
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Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
World, we've got a problem! Climate Change. Make that two problems as Pollution is in the frame, too. In Basher Science Mini: Green Technology, scientific wizardry rides to the planet's rescue. From saving the birds and the bees, to cleaning up the seas and waving goodbye to plastics, green tech is part of the solution to climate change. Some solutions are really out there--take a bow, Space Mirrors--while others are close to home--we see you, Solar...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet. The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development? While the vast majority of scientists who study the environment agree that humans play a large part in climate change, there is a counterargument. Author Gail Herman...
19) Weather
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From wild tornadoes to blinding blizzards, learn what makes our climate and weather work in this stunning visual guide. Fiercer hurricanes, hungrier wildfires, flash floods, and desertification are becoming a part of daily life as our climate shifts and changes. Weather covers the most important areas of this timely topic, delivering up-to-date expert information on everything from the water cycle to winds, cloud galleries, fog, and snow, and from...
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