Eugene Linden
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 291 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Journalist Linden pulls no punches in this urgent look at the causes and progression of climate change, the science that proved its existence, and what could have been done to mitigate it. He begins in the 1980s, when "the rise in global temperatures first began to separate itself from the noise of annual variations," and continues up through the 2010s, which saw the first "widespread public alarm" over climate change, showing in meticulous detail...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
x, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At times benefactor or tormentor, climate nurtured the first stirrings of civilization and then repeatedly visited ruin on empires and peoples. Environmental journalist Linden reveals a recurring pattern in which civilizations become prosperous and complacent during good weather, only to collapse when climate changes--either through its direct effects, such as floods or drought, or indirect...