Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Madhouse Effect portrays the intellectual pretzels into which denialists must twist logic to explain away the clear evidence that human activity has changed Earth's climate. Toles's cartoons collapse counter-scientific strategies into their biased components, helping readers see how to best strike at these fallacies. Mann's expert skills at science communication aim to restore sanity to a debate that continues to rage against widely acknowledged...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardiest...
Author
Language
English
Description
The author provides evidence of the following : the end of global warming ; the beginning of a "solar hibernation," a historic reduction in the energy output of the sun ; a long-term drop in the earth's temperatures ; the start of the next climate change to decades of dangerously cold weather ; the high probability of record earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration--a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. In Bicycling with Butterflies, Dykman recounts her incredible journey and the dramatic ups and downs of the nearly nine-month odyssey. We're beside her as she navigates unmapped roads in foreign countries, checks roadside milkweed for...
Author
Publisher
Bold Story Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Facing directly into the devastation of climate chaos and biodiversity loss, Rampy leads her readers on a soul journey through grief and loss to also claim the beauty, joy and possibilities available when we reconnect with Earth. As we follow the author’s compelling personal experiences and engagingly lyrical stories of whales, cedars, sparrows, and more, we see the necessity and urgency of learning from the wisdom of our kin in the natural world....
Author
Publisher
R.A.B. Publishing House
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Dystopia, Utopia and the realm of gods intersect through the inter-dimensional seeings of one girl, Maya, The In-between. She is humanity's channel between life & death. Natural Disasters have devastated planet Earth and all life remains in one City. A City of iron and technology where citizens are safe but they are not free. Until recently, Maya lived there in hiding, painting visions of a vibrant valley where nature still thrives. She's a seer,...
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"--
We are alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity. The climate disaster is one of our biggest challenges-- but also our greatest source of hope. Once...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years--including the pandemic--to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises--global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution....
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Called "one of the nation's most effective communicators on climate change" by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats, and resistance to proposed solutions with ease. Over the past fifteen years Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate...
14) Global
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.
Author
Publisher
EDC, Usborne Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The climate crisis is real. It is already changing the world around us. This book will help you to understand how we know this to be true, and what effect it might have in the future. The good news is that we have a plan. But the big question still remains--will we choose to do it?"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire-the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century-and a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds. On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California, awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fire was upon them, gobbling an acre a second. Less than two hours after the fire ignited, the town was engulfed in flames,...
Author
Publisher
Big Kid Science
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Español
Description
"�Has pensado lo que t�u puedes hacer para ayudar a salvar al mundo? �Unete a Diego mientras sue�na que es un mago y luego descubre las muchas maneras en las que, cuando sea grande, podr�a causar un cambio verdadero."--Publisher's description.
Longing to become a wizard so that he can magically fight global warming, young Diego realizes that he does not possess magical powers and considers other environmentally friendly careers, in a story...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request