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1) Two degrees
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
When three children endure separate climate change disasters--a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida--they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the world.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Become an eyewitness to the weird and wonderful ways of our world, from tsunamis to tornadoes, and discover nature's awesome potential with this Eyewitness guide. See how earthquakes, floods and hurricanes affect what lies in their path, and what measures we can use to protect ourselves from Mother Nature. Follow the journey of some of the most catastrophic disasters, and witness the rescue operations that followed. Learn, too, about the equipment...
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The Great Global Warming Swindle caused controversy in the UK when it premiered in March 2007. According to Martin Durkin's documentary, the chief cause of climate change is not human activity but changes in radiation from the sun. Some have called "The Great Global Warming Swindle" the definitive retort to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". This program, hosted by Lateline presenter Tony Jones introduces the controversial documentary. The screening...
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Series
Oxford very short introductions volume 118
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
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"--
10) The ice age
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Would you have survived the ice age? Make decisions and tally your score to find out. Written at a lower reading level with considerate text, these high maturity books are sure to grab struggling readers as they engage and play along. Also includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, educational matter, and activities"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still act as if climate change doesn't exist? George Marshall seeks to answer that question. This book is both about climate change and about the qualities that make us human and how we can deal with the greatest challenge we have ever faced. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The conditions that allowed humans to live on Earth are incredibly fragile. Climate variability has at times created new niches that humans or their ancestors could potentially exploit, and challenges that at times have spurred innovation. But there's arelatively narrow envelope of climate variability within which human civilization remains viable, and our survival depends on conditions remaining within that range. In this book, renowned climate scientist...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people--people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal. Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world,...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As the icecaps melt and the seas levels rise around the globe, climate change has become one of the most urgent and controversial issues of our time. Now, two renowned thinkers present the realities of global warming in the everyday conversation--showing us how to convince skeptics why we need to act now.--
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Seamus McGraw takes us on a trip along America’s culturally fractured back roads and listens to farmers and ranchers and fishermen, many of them people who are not ideologically, politically, or in some cases even religiously inclined to believe in man-made global climate change. He shows us how they are already being affected and the risks they are already taking on a personal level to deal with extreme weather and its very real consequences for...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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 way of life. A brilliant and determined young woman employed as a sex worker to the elite is offered a chance to join the Blooms, a group meant to service the men in camp-but her mission is to secretly monitor the mercurial architect...
17) Sinking cities
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As the earth warms, sea levels rise, and super-storms become more frequent and intense; many major coastal cities will soon be under water. Sinking Cities shows New York, London, Tokyo and Miami preparing for the real-time impact of rising seas and devising colossal new construction projects, and groundbreaking solutions aimed at securing their future.
19) Green technology
Author
Series
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...
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Language
English
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"...a daring call to action that details how the future of human civilization is under threat--and offers concrete advice for making your voice heard in the fight to solve the climate crisis at a moment when the solutions we need are emerging around the world."--Page 4 of cover.
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