Frank Carlson Library

A Rough Ride to the Future introduces two new Lovelock­ian ideas. The first is that three hundred years ago, when Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine, he was un­knowingly beginning what Lovelock calls "accelerated evolu­tion," a process that is bringing about change on our planet roughly a million times faster than Darwinian evolution. The second is that as part of this process, humanity has the capacity to become the intelligent part of...

We are used to hearing that the climate crisis is serious, but still tractable if we start acting on it soon. The reality is different. Things are going to get much worse, for a long time, whatever we now do — though hardly anyone wants to admit it. This book from the Green House collective offers climate honesty. The time for focusing primarily on mitigation is over. We now need to adapt to the dark reality of climate breakdown. But, this means...

Today's "extreme weather events" (record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and melting ice caps) foreshadow an increasingly unstable and dire future. Yet, despite all, the US government continues to reject the Kyoto Protocol, to deny the catastrophic consequences of oil dependency, and to define the politics of oil as the politics of U.S. unilateralism, domination, and war. Dead Heat argues that justice-not rhetoric and "aid" but real developmental justice...

The appalling events in the Ukraine have shocked Western democracies. Yet this disaster has allowed reality to assume its dominion over wishful thinking. All but the most obsessed will know that we must regain self sufficiency in energy - energy that is abundant and affordable. This can only be guaranteed by exploiting the fossil fuels that lie under the surface of our land and seas in the knowledge that emissions of CO2 can only be of benefit...

Hace más de diez años, un oso polar apareció en la costa del sur de Argentina, y todos los expertos determinaron que había nadado, al menos, 2.000 kilómetros. Una hazaña increíble que tiene un trágico motivo: el deshielo producido por el calentamiento global no permite a los osos polares conseguir alimento, y tienen que cambiar de hábitat para poder sobrevivir. Ello ha provocado que los osos polares se encuentren entre la larga lista...

"Once upon a time on a baby blue planet where everything was just right, a few mischievous men decided to find out how much carbon dioxide they could send up into the atmosphere before the planet got overcooked and teeming with tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, droughts, and forest fires popping up all over. Flocks of nice people, upset with how their baby blue planet was being messed with, marched and carried signs until these pranksters got so ashamed...

This book makes the case that many climate related scientists have provided data that confirm that burning fossil fuels has increased greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, which has had a major impact on climate change. Each of the six chapters provides many references and questions for review. The first chapter emphasizes worldwide awareness of the relationship between climate change and disasters in the Asia Pacific region. The following chapters...

All is well with the weather. This book cools down the debate on global warming and blows away the hot air. The false claims of climate hysterics are superbly rebutted. There is no need to panic, scaremongering politicians are misleading the public they need to calm down the climate debate. Read why. So lucid and accessible are the scientific contradictions of the global warming dogma that it is truly astounding how belief in its doctrine has...

A Climate Declaration is a revolutionary document calling for the removal of the failed leaders and institutions that have willfully or incompetently devastated the Earth's climate. We are determined to solve the climate crisis and repair the Earth by putting young people, those who actually have the standing and character to act, in charge. With the help of scientists and engineers, we will restore a healthy planet for incoming and future generations....

A fun and cheerful way to consider the very serious subject of global warming. Written in a multiple-choice, trivia quiz format, through 71 questions (and answers), this book addresses many issues related to global warming. For added entertainment value, most questions have a silly (or absurd) answer choice in addition to the serious choices. The correct answers often go into greater detail about a particular question. The answers are supported by...