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Keeping Our Cool : Canada in a Warming World.

By: Toronto : Viking, 2008Description: x, 323 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780670068005
  • 0670068004
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC981.8.G56 W42 2008
Contents:
A change in the wind -- Global warming in the news -- A passage through time -- The nature of things -- The human footprint -- Turbulent times -- Investing in the future.
Summary: Monster wildfires in Australia, January golfers in PEI, ruined fruit crops in California, snowless ski runs in Switzerland, starving polar bears in the North, devastated trees in Stanley Park. Climate change is no longer a vague threat. The climate change we are in store for over the next few centuries will be larger and occur faster than at any time in the last 10,000 years. Brilliantly researched, Keeping Our Cool is a comprehensive and engaging examination and explanation of global warming, with a specific emphasis on climate change in Canada. In an engaging and accessible way, Weaver explains the levels of greenhouse gas emissions needed to stabilize the climate and offers solutions and a path toward a sustainable future.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC981.8 .G56 .W42 2008 1 Available 50583020007831
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-306) and index.

A change in the wind -- Global warming in the news -- A passage through time -- The nature of things -- The human footprint -- Turbulent times -- Investing in the future.

Monster wildfires in Australia, January golfers in PEI, ruined fruit crops in California, snowless ski runs in Switzerland, starving polar bears in the North, devastated trees in Stanley Park. Climate change is no longer a vague threat. The climate change we are in store for over the next few centuries will be larger and occur faster than at any time in the last 10,000 years. Brilliantly researched, Keeping Our Cool is a comprehensive and engaging examination and explanation of global warming, with a specific emphasis on climate change in Canada. In an engaging and accessible way, Weaver explains the levels of greenhouse gas emissions needed to stabilize the climate and offers solutions and a path toward a sustainable future.

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