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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe thereś a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. The basic science is not complicated:...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xv, 357 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Nino ever recorded, the most devastating hurricane in two hundred years, the hottest European summer on record, and one of the worst storm seasons ever experienced in Florida. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels...
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pete Postlethwaite (the only fictional character) stars as an archivist living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, who spends his days looking at old footage from the years leading up to 2015 when a cataclysmic climate change took place. As he sifts through the relics of our lost and misguided civilization, the archivist asks why Earth's inhabitants did nothing to reverse the effects of climate change while they still had the chance.
Series
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (23 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Find out how scientists measure climate change, see how carbon dioxide afffects the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere, and hear about the role of fossil fuels"--Container.
6) Red hot lies: how global warming alarmists use threats, fraud, and deception to keep you misinformed
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
viii, 407 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Red Hot Lies, bestselling author Christopher Horner--himself the target of Greenpeace dirty tricks and alarmist smears--exposes the dark underbelly of the environmental movement: from power-hungry politicians blacklisting scientists who reject global warming alarmism to mainstream media outlets that openly reject the notion of "balance."
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Language
English
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Description
The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient Truth and companion to Vice President Al Gore’s new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, this new book is a daring call to action. It exposes the reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and delivers hope through groundbreaking information on what you can do now. Vice President Gore, one of our environmental heroes and a leading expert in...
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English
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"Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly...
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English
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"One man - visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D. - has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemental." But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied? Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert,...
11) Solar: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. While he coasts along in his professional life, Michael's personal life is another matter entirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of his infidelities....
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
37 p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ms. Frizzle takes her kids on a whirlwind tour from the Arctic to the equator so they can see telltale signs of climate change.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world. In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here — some are well known; some you may have never...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population--and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow--and dreams--means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a lab experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the water off New Guinea. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xix, 359 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and woman's rights campaigner living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first warned the world that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This was back in 1856. At the time, no one paid much attention. Our Biggest Experiment tells Foote's story, along with stories of the many other scientists who came before and after her, helping build our modern understanding...
19) The 11th hour
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the current conditions of humans and nature on Earth, and offers solutions and technologies for the future of the planet.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world. McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is to see it through the eyes of those who see it most clearly — as a market opportunity. Global warming’s physical impacts can be separated into three broad...
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