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After more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, Gates sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. He explains why he is optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis, and discusses how climate change can be addressed in meaningful ways. -- adapted from jacket
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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English
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"In The Future We Choose, the authors outline two possible scenarios for the planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris targets for carbon dioxide emission reduction. In the other, they describe what it will take to create and live in a carbon neutral, regenerative world. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head on, with determination and optimism. How we all of us address the climate...
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Publisher
Green Writers Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Run away. That was all she could do. If Security grabbed her now, they'd ship her off to a ReBirthing facility in the desert. Or burn her alive. They burned witches in the Dominions. Great Mother, anything but that. But for 15-year-old Polly Lightfoot, much more than her life is at stake. In a crumbling America governed by hateful zealots and crippled by environmental catastrophe, her people and their ancient craft face obliteration. Unless, with...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The millennial generation could be the first to experience the doomsday impacts of climate change-- and the last generation able to do something about them. Dembicki provides a wake-up call for the biggest challenge of our era, told through the stories of people fighting for their survival.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rose is a Korean American sex worker who has agreed to spy on an architect's utopian building project in the far north of Canada in exchange for safe housing for herself and her climate-displaced mother. She arrives at Camp Zero at the same time as Grant, an Ivy League-educated professor out of his depth in this land of extreme cold and brutality. It soon becomes clear to both of them that their time at the camp is not going to provide an easy path...
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Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
150 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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"A meditative, immersive take on the weather around us. Sophisticated nonfiction picture book with informational content. Illustrated with striking atmospheric paintings. Includes calls to action for the reader, inviting them to observe and inquire about the outdoors. Through four chapters--sun, rain, ice and snow, and extreme weather--this book explores different weather phenomena, from rainbows and sunsets to clouds, frost, and rainstorms. Evocative...
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English
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"Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty; her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she's been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn't return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers...
71) Extreme ice
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This video disc focuses on climate change shown through time-lapse cameras set by internationally acclaimed photojournalist James Balog, who has placed equipment in more than two dozen glacial locations around the world in order to assess the impact of global warming.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Looks at the connections between the atmosphere, the oceans, and life all over the world, describing how these oscillations came to be recognized and the impact they have on the delicate balance of the Earth's biological populations.
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Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 307 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"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...
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English
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In a future shaken by climate disasters, Yolanda Cicerón knows that nature is something to be feared. From the crops that don't grow to the terrifying creatures that roam the countryside, Yoly's life in the Valley is brutal and harsh. She dreams of leaving her farm to live in Silo--the most advanced town for miles around. But first, Yoly will need to prove she belongs in a place where only the smartest and most useful are welcomed. Between her razor-sharp...
79) The deluge
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English
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In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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From one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes this work, a book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.
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