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2) Weather of the future: heat waves, extreme storms, and other scenes from a climate-changed planet
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A paleoclimatologist makes predictions about how environmental choices in the twenty-first century will affect life on the planet throughout the distant future, drawing on geological history to argue that global cooling poses a more significant threat.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"In this cautionary but optimistic book, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac--the architects of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement--tackle arguably the most urgent and consequential challenge humankind has ever faced: the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity. 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...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book argues that a world characterized by runaway climate change needs radically new models of scientific and practical expertise to effectively address the emergency"--
"A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worlds. As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth's fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable. Horizon Work explores how climate change...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost,...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This book is about how climate science works and why you should absolutely trust some of its conclusions and absolutely distrust others.Climate change raises new, foundational challenges in science. It requires us to question what we know and how we know it. The subject is important for society but the science is young and history tells us that scientists can get things wrong before they get them right. How, then, can we judge what information is...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"We all recognize that climate change is a supremely important issue of our time, which requires both trans-national and trans-generational collaboration and shared responsibility. What we haven't yet fully appreciated, argues political philosopher Henry Shue, are the ethical considerations surrounding the fact that the next one or two decades will determine whether climate change, which already has led us to dangerous effects, will surge into inescapably...
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