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Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Scientists study climate change to predict future risks so people can prepare. They also learn about ways to slow climate change. Studying Climate Change examines how scientists gather information from the air, soil, water, and ice to learn more about the changes happening to Earth.
142) Snow crystals
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
Over 2,000 photomicrographs of snowflakes, plus slides of frost, rime, glaze, dew, and hail. Introduction by meteorologist W. J. Humphreys discusses techniques of photographing snow crystals, science of crystallography, classification, and markings. 202 plates.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Like the deadly tornadoes it documents, this potent combination of high adventure and hard science is terrifyingly timely in our era of global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel, now America's most watched programming, has in recent years shown us a relentless series of hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and eruptions killing thousands, turning millions into refugees, and leaving whole cities in shocked, shattered ruins.
Of nature's...
146) Climate crisis
Author
Series
Publisher
Copper Beech Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Examines changes in local and global weather patterns, the causes and effects of these changes, and what can be done to slow the harm being done to the environment.
Author
Publisher
Cicada Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The terrifying effects of a warming planet are impossible to ignore, but sometimes it's hard to pick through the facts and to understand exactly what's happening and how. This book of bright, bold infographics illuminates the realities of climate change in hard numbers, digestible data and vivid visualizations. How will rising sea levels affect us? What is the impact of meat on the planet? What industries create the most emissions? How do renewable...
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Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2001 Book Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa" "One of Choices Outstanding Academic Titles for 2001" Richard B. Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The author of more than 240 scientific papers, he was also the host of the PBS miniseries Earth: The Operators' Manual.
In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery...
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Publisher
Ivy Press Limited, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This book explores and explain 30 different topics arranged in 6 chapters on the how and why of our global weather and its effects, from atmospheric influences, the seasons, and climate zones to extreme events, forecasting, and global warming. Each topic includes a short explanation, flash summary, artwork, and more.
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
It's Raining Frogs and Fishes is a generously illustrated inquiry into wonders of the sky: Why is the sky blue? Where do meteors originate? What causes rainbows, mirages, and the colors of the sunset? Why do some birds and insects migrate, and how do they navigate over hundreds or thousands of miles to do it? How have civilizations throughout history viewed the aurora borealis, tornadoes, eclipses, and the bizarre but well documented cases of fish,...
154) Equatorial climates
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Describes the weather, plant and animal life, and how people live in the rain forest, monsoon, and savanna regions of the tropics.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Jean Jouzel, one of the two winners of the Vetlesen Prize of the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation for 2012" Jean Jouzel, Claude Lorius, and Dominique Raynaud are internationally acclaimed scientists who have won many awards for their work documenting long-term climate change through the study of deep ice cores. Jouzel and Raynaud are members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Lorius was awarded the 2009 Blue Planet Prize.
A gripping...
157) Thin ice
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Climate science has been coming under increasing attack. In response, geologist Simon Lamb took his camera to his climate science colleagues around the world to find out what's really going on. Thin Ice reveals the human face of climate science. It also provides an accessible introduction to the latest Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Thin Ice is a joint initiative between Oxford University (United Kingdom) Victoria...
Publisher
Stockade Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The "hockey stick" graph of global temperatures is the single most influential icon in the global-warming debate, promoted by the UN's transnational climate bureaucracy, featured in Al Gore's Oscar-winning movie, used by governments around the world to sell the Kyoto Accord to their citizens, and shown to impressionable schoolchildren from kindergarten to graduation. And yet what it purports to "prove" is disputed and denied by many of the world's...
160) Earth's secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[i.e. 2010]
Language
English
Description
"Describes the invisible forces responsible for shaping life on Earth"--Provided by publisher.
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