Climate Makes the Man
Author : Clarence Alonzo Mills
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Human beings
ISBN :
Man-Made Climate Change
Author : Olav Hohmeyer
Publisher : Physica
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
As the Kyoto conference of the parties on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change once again underscored, man-made climate change has become one of the major challenges to our generation and many generations to come. Since scientific evidence on climate change can be seen as increasingly reliable, the focus of our attention has to turn more and more to the question of foreseeable damages and to possibilities to prevent and mitigate climate change. In other words, we need to analyse the economic aspects of man marle climate change and the policy options to prevent its most severe impacts. This book reports on the findings of an international workshop on these aspects of global climate change. It was organised by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany on March 6th and 7th 1997. In the light of the ongoing international policy-making process on climate change, we decided to publish the report after the Kyoto conference from December Ist to 10th, 1997, to include the results of the conference, which emphasise the importance of economic aspects and economic policy options when it comes to addressing the problern of man-made climate change. Thus, this book went to press in February 1998 the moment we received the official version of the Kyoto Protocol, which is reproduced in the annex.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Author : Bill Gates
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0385546149
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
The Weather Makers
Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1555846335
Book Description
The #1 international bestseller on climate change that’s been endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers, and energy executives around the world. Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to worldwide prominence. For the first time, a scientist provided an accessible and comprehensive account of the history, current status, and future impact of climate change, writing what has been acclaimed by reviewers everywhere as the definitive book on global warming. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point. The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Originally somewhat of a global warming skeptic, Tim Flannery spent several years researching the topic and offers a connect-the-dots approach for a reading public who has received patchy or misleading information on the subject. Pulling on his expertise as a scientist to discuss climate change from a historical perspective, Flannery also explains how climate change is interconnected across the planet. This edition includes a new afterword by the author. “An authoritative, scientifically accurate book on global warming that sparkles with life, clarity, and intelligence.” —The Washington Post
Solved
Author : David Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1487554583
Book Description
If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can – and because they must. The updated paperback edition of Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis demonstrates that the initiatives cities have taken to control the climate crisis can make a real difference in reducing global emissions if implemented worldwide. By chronicling the stories of how cities have taken action to meet and exceed emissions targets laid out in the Paris Agreement, Miller empowers readers to fix the climate crisis. As much a “how to” guide for policymakers as a work for concerned citizens, Solved aims to inspire hope through its clear and factual analysis of what can be done – now, today – to mitigate our harmful emissions and pave the way to a 1.5-degree world.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1620409895
Book Description
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe). Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today. But in the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding grows. Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She has added a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus three new chapters--on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral--making it, again, a must-read for our moment.
Man-Made Climate Change
Author : Clemons Leon Kunkel
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2019-05-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781099377822
Book Description
Man-Made Climate Change made very simple to understand. I am not talking about Mother Nature that is climate-change I'm talking about us. All the humans on the planet are responsible. Just go outside of you're home and look at your house and you will realize that's not a tree that converts sunlight throws photosynthesis, or look at the car that you drive and realize it gives off heat and puts carbon dioxide in the air that raises earth temperature because the emissions of CO2 is greenhouse gas that contributes to the planet warming up. The book shows you how we have changed our planet and it's not in a good way. Think about all the Man-Made heaters in your home or the world. Things like a car, tractor, motorcycle, airplane or a boat They give off heat and put CO2 in the air. Yes, we like going on vacation and getting to work but we are changing the environment. To think that we are not is not thinking. The 1930s Dust Bowl in the United States destroyed 60,000 Acres from over farming when we went to the Industrial Age. Scientists told us what we did wrong and we had to switch to what is called no-till farming. Scientists have been warning us for years that we have a problem and it's only going to keep getting worse. Look up NASA and see what they have about climate change. This book makes it very easy to understand that we are the problem and we must fix this. Not fixing this is not to live too much longer on the planet. Remember the Paris Climate Accord shows we have a problem around the world. 197 countries belong to it, the only country that does not is the United States because Donald J Trump does not understand Man-Made Climate Change but I do and I live in the United States. We must work together with the rest of the world to save the plan there is no Gray, in the book I will prove it!
Climate Makes the Man
Author : Clarence Alonzo Mills
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Book Description
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Author : Michael E. Mann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 023115254X
Book Description
A member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change examines the fossil-fuel industry's public relations campaign to discredit the science of climate change and deny the reality of global warming.
The New Climate War
Author : Michael E. Mann
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1541758226
Book Description
Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we've been told can slow climate change. But the inordinate emphasis on individual behavior is the result of a marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals. Fossil fuel companies have followed the example of other industries deflecting blame (think "guns don't kill people, people kill people") or greenwashing (think of the beverage industry's "Crying Indian" commercials of the 1970s). Meanwhile, they've blocked efforts to regulate or price carbon emissions, run PR campaigns aimed at discrediting viable alternatives, and have abdicated their responsibility in fixing the problem they've created. The result has been disastrous for our planet. In The New Climate War, Mann argues that all is not lost. He draws the battle lines between the people and the polluters-fossil fuel companies, right-wing plutocrats, and petrostates. And he outlines a plan for forcing our governments and corporations to wake up and make real change, including: A common-sense, attainable approach to carbon pricing- and a revision of the well-intentioned but flawed currently proposed version of the Green New Deal; Allowing renewable energy to compete fairly against fossil fuels Debunking the false narratives and arguments that have worked their way into the climate debate and driven a wedge between even those who support climate change solutions Combatting climate doomism and despair-mongering With immensely powerful vested interests aligned in defense of the fossil fuel status quo, the societal tipping point won't happen without the active participation of citizens everywhere aiding in the collective push forward. This book will reach, inform, and enable citizens everywhere to join this battle for our planet.
