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El cambio climático es el mayor reto de la humanidad en el siglo XXI, pero... ¿entendemos qué implica realmente? Tomar conciencia de ello es poner en cuestión lo que sabemos y pensamos. Es hablar de cambio y de incertidumbre. Esta obra parte de la preocupación por el calentamiento global y los impactos que tendrá en nuestro día a día, pero también del hecho de que el conocimiento que tenemos es fragmentario, parcial y a menudo incorrecto....
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"Once upon a time on a baby blue planet where everything was just right, a few mischievous men decided to find out how much carbon dioxide they could send up into the atmosphere before the planet got overcooked and teeming with tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, droughts, and forest fires popping up all over. Flocks of nice people, upset with how their baby blue planet was being messed with, marched and carried signs until these pranksters got so ashamed...
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Human induced climate change, overuse of natural resources, overwhelming amount of waste and pollution, gender inequality, elevated stress levels, flood of fake news. All these have a lot to do with our controversial human nature and how our race has formed, besides making our life more difficult and less sustainable.
You are to see the controversial process of how we began to become the only highly intelligent species, how widespread is our impact...
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The appalling events in the Ukraine have shocked Western democracies. Yet this disaster has allowed reality to assume its dominion over wishful thinking. All but the most obsessed will know that we must regain self sufficiency in energy - energy that is abundant and affordable.
This can only be guaranteed by exploiting the fossil fuels that lie under the surface of our land and seas in the knowledge that emissions of CO2 can only be of benefit...
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In Comfortably Unaware, Dr. Richard Oppenlander tackles the crucial issue of global depletion as it relates to food choice. We should all be committed, he tells us, to understanding the reality and consequences of our diet, the footprint it makes on our environment, and seek food products that are in the best interest of all living things. His forthright information and stark mental images are often disturbing-and that's how it should be. As the guardians...
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The world is at strangest of times; experiencing the harshest of temperatures, the weakest rainfall, the strongest floods, and the fiercest of silent wars. The earth is crying, but just a few can hear her wail at the feet of climate change and food insecurity. We are witnessing the incessant and daily drum beats from the media insisting that the disasters occurring are the results of 'Climate Change' caused by human activity, fossil fuels etc; is...
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Clima y cambio climático resume todo lo que una persona informada tiene que conocer hoy sobre la emergencia climática y la atmósfera de la Tierra. A través de una prosa muy cuidada, el profesor Tapiador consigue transmitirnos ideas complejas con extraordinaria sencillez. Con un estilo divulgativo y fluido, y sin perder nunca el rigor científico, el libro traslada conocimiento de primera mano sobre "el problema emergente más importante de la...
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If you are driving off a cliff, someone telling you to slow down isn't much of a help. (Well, slowing down while you turn in a new direction is likely to be a good idea.) By burning fossil fuels, humanity is now driving itself off a climate cliff toward extinction. We need to completely stop burning "stuff" (fossil fuels, or anything else) for energy. Yet to thrive we really do need lots of energy-in fact, even more than we now are using. This book...
69) Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It
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Dealing with the Root Cause of Global Warming Calls for New Remedies, Says Expert
The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth scientist and an award winning science writer, Fixing Climate takes an unconventional approach to the vitally important issue of global warming. Wallace S. Broecker, a longtime researcher at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, warned about the possible consequences of global warming...
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Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. In Dark Winter, author John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place in the climate and the Sun. Casey's research into the Sun's activity, which began almost a decade ago, resulted in discovery of a solar cycle that is now reversing from its global warming phase to...
71) Lady Gaia Speaks
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What does the planet think?
Lady Gaia is an organism made up of every living thing, from prions and viruses to blue whales and red sequoias, and in this imaginative tour de force of a polemic against human-made global warming and habitat destruction, Patricia Finney gets the views of the world we should love, on our prospects for survival, departure into space — or replacement.
There are other species that could become dominant, if our planet turns...
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Are you overwhelmed by the conflicting information and passionate debates surrounding climate change? Does the urgency in climate discourse leave you feeling anxious and concerned? Do you wish you had a clearer understanding of the science that underpins this global issue?
If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, then this book is your essential guide.
This isn't a manifesto pushing a political agenda. Instead, it aims to arm you with straightforward...
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Embark on an eye-opening journey with 'Climate Crossroads,' your essential guide to understanding the pressing issues of climate change and embracing sustainable living. This engaging book takes you to the very heart of our environmental challenges and equips you with the knowledge and strategies to make a positive impact on our world.Delve into the Earth's remarkable history in 'A Journey Through Earth's Past' to grasp how our climate has evolved...
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Stories of restlessness, disruption, conflagrations, faraday tents, mythmakers, bubble-worlds, local nomads, transformation, resilience and the power of the exponential.
The VISIONS 2100 Project was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015.
In the first instalment, Stories from your Future, the 80 contributors told of their hopes and fears for the long term. This took away the practicalities of today and considered what they really wanted....
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Climate change represents an increasing threat to the continued development of the people, preservation of ecosystems, and economic growth of Asia and the Pacific. Mainstreaming climate risk management in all aspects of development is thus key to an effective transition to climate-resilient development pathways. ADB's climate risk management framework aims to reduce risks resulting from climate change to investment projects in Asia and the Pacific....
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Facing Climate Change explains why people refuse to accept evidence of a warming planet and shows how to move past partisanship to reach a consensus for action. A climate scientist and licensed psychotherapist, Jeffrey T. Kiehl examines the psychological phenomena that twist our relationship to the natural world and their role in shaping the cultural beliefs that distance us further from nature. He also accounts for the emotions triggered by the lived...
78) The Lost Tide
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A team of scientists must fight to save two continents from the most devastating natural disaster in the history of mankind
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This book provides the most comprehensive briefing or tutorial on the global-warming or climate-change situation available in any one place today because it covers not only the scientific and technical side of this issue but also the human, economic and political sides. It describes global warming and humanity's response to it from a multidisciplinary systems viewpoint, where the total system is comprised of Earth's natural systems interacting with...
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Afin de comprendre et de prévoir les répercussions des changements climatiques sur la biodiversité du Québec, des climatologues, biologistes, naturalistes et gestionnaires de la biodiversité ont analysé près de 1 000 espèces d'animaux et de plantes terrestres. Cet ouvrage présente les résultats de leur recherche faisant appel aux approches scientifiques les plus perfectionnées ainsi qu'aux modèles climatiques et aux données sur la biodiversité...
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