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Language
English
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Description
Eric Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. Anchored by world-class reporting, interviews with futurists, climatologists, biologists, economists, and climate change activists, it shows what the world could look like if we implemented radical solutions on the scale of the crises we face.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times bestselling book by the same name, provides a straightforward look at the green energy revolution taking place all around us. Featuring the inventors and entrepreneurs who are leading the charge in this mission, we'll see how going green is not only good for the planet, but it's also good for business.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90°F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 7
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
131 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's the Science Fair, and the second grade is all over it! Some kids are making man-eating robots. Some kids are holding their breath for a very, very long time. Some kids are doing interesting things with vacuum cleaners. The theme, obviously, is global warming. But what should Ivy and Bean do? Something involving explosions? Or ropes? Something with ice cubes? Or maybe ... maybe something different.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear.
When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the subterfuge.
From Tokyo to Los Angeles, from Antarctica to the Solomon Islands, Michael Crichton mixes cutting edge science and action-packed adventure,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 53 min.)
Language
English
Description
The math is simple: the fossil fuel industry has five times the amount of coal, gas and oil that even the most conservative governments know is safe to burn. Left to their own devices, they'll push us past the brink of cataclysmic disaster and life as we know it will be irrevocably altered forever - unless we rise up and fight back. In November 2012, best-selling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben and 350.org -- the organization he co-founded...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 53 min.)
Language
English
Description
This fascinating and clarifying look at the debate surrounding global warming explores the striking disconnect between the relatively clear-cut concerns of the world's most prominent scientists and the maze of speculation, rhetorical posturing, and outright misinformation that attaches to this issue whenever it's taken up by politicians, PR specialists, and political pundits. Mixing a localized focus on Ireland with insights from scientists and leaders...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Journey to the top of the world with scientists as they embark on the most ambitious Arctic research expedition of all time. The Arctic - much of it a vast frozen ocean, shrouded in darkness for half the year - is warming at twice the rate as the rest of the globe.
10) Storm stories
Publisher
Weather Channel
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 10 hr., 45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Weather experts and scientists discuss abrupt weather changes, global warming, and the drastic results (floods, storms, severe cold, droughts and wildfires) that could occur if the ocean flow patterns, which regulate heat, shut down.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nova explores the ways that scientists are facing the climate challenge.
Arctic Sinkholes: Scientists investigate colossal explosions in Siberia and other evidence that rapidly thawing soil in the Arctic is releasing vast amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. What are the implications for our climate future.
Weathering The Future: As extreme weather in the U.S. impacts more people--with longer heat waves, more intense rainstorms, megafires,...
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
14) Revolution
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this multi-award-winning film, Rob Stewart embarks on a global journey to uncover the grave dangers threatening the world's oceans -- and ultimately, humanity -- as well as to learn what it will take to reverse the challenges to life on earth. From the coral reefs in Papua New Guinea to the rainforests of Madagascar, Stewart's travels reveal that our fate is tied to even the smallest of creatures. Stunning scenes of underwater sea life bring viewers...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author points out that core questions about the way the climate is responding to our influence and what the impacts will be remain largely unanswered. He provides insights and perspective free from political agendas, dispels popular myths, and unveils little-known truths. He points out that the models we use to predict the future aren't able to accurately describe the climate of the past, suggesting they are deeply flawed.
16) The soil will save us: how scientists, farmers, and foodies are healing the soil to save the planet
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiii, 242 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC., a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This book will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong--and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers a look at the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scientist Bill Nye examines the earth's warming temperatures through the prism of the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Ultimately Dr. Schwarzenegger encourages Bill to find solutions in science, and Bill heads to Silicon Valley to explore the ways technology companies like Google and Tesla are taking the lead in mapping out a clean energy future that can save the planet.
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