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"One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2016" "One of The Independent's 6 Best Books in Nature 2015" "One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2015" "One of The Guardian's Best Science Books of 2015" "One of LinkedIn's Best Business Books of 2015" "Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016" "Longlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction" Oliver Morton is briefings editor at the Economist, and his...
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WHEN'S THE LAST TIME YOUR CUP OVERFLOWED FROM MELTING ICE? Global Warming isn't real. In 2006, Al Gore's bestselling, An Inconvenient Truth hit the world with dire warnings about a planetary emergency -- with scare tactics designed to make people panic when they should be thinking. We only have one Earth, and it is our duty to use it and care for it as well as we can. What that doesn't mean is that we should give into hysteria, and it certainly doesn't...
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Este trabajo explora las formas en que la desigualdad social se proyecta en las intimidades del servicio doméstico, y analiza las experiencias y trayectorias de vida de tres mujeres que trabajan como empleadas domésticas en Bogotá, en torno a las tensiones que implican las diferencias sociales entre patrones y empleadas. El argumento central de este texto sostiene que en el servicio doméstico se dan múltiples confi guraciones de intimidad que...
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In the publicity surrounding global warming, climate scientists are usually the experts consulted by the media. We rarely hear from geologists, who for almost two hundred years have been studying the history of Earth's dramatic and repeated climate revolutions, as revealed in the evidence of rocks and landscapes. This book, written by a geologist, describes the important contributions that geology has made to our understanding of climate change. What...
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What would happen if Galileo were alive today?
What happens when you oppose the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models?
Would he survive Western Civilization and the Politically Correct Thought Police?
This SHORT STORY is a brisk and refreshing walk through the Socratic Method as applied to Global Warming and Climate Change (e.g. AGW-Anthropogenic Global...
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PRANKS. OIL. PROTEST. JOKES BETWEEN NEWLYWEDS.
AND, ONE HILARIOUS SIEGE OF A MAJOR CORPORATION.
Remmy grows up with Beth in Bellhammer, Illinois as oil and coal companies rob the land of everything that made it paradise. Under his Grandad, he learns how to properly prank his neighbors, friends, and foes. Beth tries to fix Remmy by taking him to church. Under his Daddy, Remmy starts the Bell Hammer Construction Company, which depends on contracts...
67) Sustainable Transport Solutions: Low-Carbon Buses in the People's Republic of China - November 2018
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This publication discusses the real-world performance data of low-carbon buses in the People's Republic of China. It also reviews the environmental and financial impacts, as well as the policies used to promote them. The People's Republic of China has taken the lead in the deployment of low-carbon buses and is moving toward full electrification to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Data and information in this publication...
68) Marimichael
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Marimichael is a political thriller about ecoterrorists, who use armed insurrection to start a climate change revolution that would spread across the United States. To get the attention of the media and the country, they take a wealthy oil baron's wife and grandchildren hostage and demand that the oil baron follow their demands. Liko, a native Hawaiian who recently moved to Washington, D.C., is, torn between protecting two of the revolutionaries,...
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The perfect remedy for our culture of fake news, bad science, and propaganda.
We have more scientific information at our fingertips today than ever before. And more disinformation too. Online, on television, and in print, science is often communicated through shorthand analogies and phrases that obscure or omit important facts. "Superfoods," "right- and left-brained" people, and "global warming" may be snappy and ear-catching but are they backed...
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Joanna D. Haigh is professor of atmospheric physics and codirector of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London. Peter Cargill is professor emeritus of physics at Imperial College London and honorary professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews.
The Earth's climate system depends entirely on the Sun for its energy. Solar radiation warms the atmosphere and is fundamental to atmospheric...
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Embark on a journey into the future with "Eco-Tech Revolution: Innovations Paving the Way to a Cooler Planet." In this groundbreaking exploration, the authors delve into the dynamic world of eco-technology, presenting a tapestry of innovations that promise a sustainable and cooler future for our planet.This book is not just a compilation of advancements; it is a celebration of human ingenuity and our ability to address the pressing challenges of climate...
73) It's Not Easy Being Green: A Year of Trying to Be Environmentally Friendly: A Poetry Diary: A Verse
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Poet Caroline Burrows / VerseCycle wrote 'It's Not Easy Being Green: A Year of Trying to be Environmentally Friendly' a verse a day for an entire year, about her successes and failures in trying to lower her carbon footprint, during what turned out to be a very eventful year, all summarised in her final verse No.367: I started these verses to try being eco-friendly/I didn't realise they'd become like my diary/As well as being greener/I got an MA;Dated...
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A radical argument about the root causes of climate change, The Closing Circle was progressive when it was written in 1971 and its message remains increasingly relevant today. Barry Commoner, the father of modern ecology, claims that production for profit creates dangerous ecological ramifications and offers a concise analysis of the nature, causes, and possible solutions to impending ecological disaster. His analysis is a must-read for those attempting...
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Amid melting glaciers, rising waters, and spreading droughts, Earth has ceased to tolerate our pretense of mastery over it. But how can we confront climate change when political crises keep exploding in the present? Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the feedback loop of political and ecological depredation as secularized apocalypse. Carl Schmitt's political theology of the sovereign exception sheds light...
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Global warming is one of the most studied and debated phenomena of our era. But do we really understand its causes and dynamics? In this book, the author questions conventional theories about the greenhouse effect and proposes a new vision.Through a meticulous analysis, he shows that the absorption of ultraviolet radiation by atmospheric oxygen plays a much more decisive role in global warming than the action of greenhouse gases. This revealing theory...
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Climate Science Adventures with Earth's Heroes is a fascinating storybook that takes young readers on a thrilling journey to learn about climate change and the significance of environmental conservation. The book captures the attention of young children to climate change – a global menace confronting the survival of planet Earth. Climate Science Adventures with Earth's Heroes " is suitable for children in the age range of 8 to 16 years old. The...
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The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world
Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing...
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Written for skeptics and believers alike, A Climate of Desire is an unconventional blend of the provocative ecological wisdom of the biblical writers with contemporary insights from sustainability experts and practitioners.
As we enter an increasingly agitated virtual age, and what many affirm is a new period of global warming, the way ahead demands rethinking and collaboration. It also calls us to reconsider our longings and desires.
Hence this...
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Every single one of us matters in the process of transforming our future - but do we really believe that? What if we are underestimating our individual and collective capacity to change ourselves, our cultures, and our systems to create a thriving future for all? Through the lens of quantum social change, Karen O'Brien presents a radically different way of thinking about how we address climate change and wider social change. Inspired by ideas from...
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