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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.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
As the Dead Sea shrinks, engineers prepare a daring solution: connect it with the Red Sea by way of a massive desalination plant. If it works, it could stabilize the lake and ease regional tensions, but will it put the environment at risk?
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From Oscar-winning director Luc Jacquet (*March of the Penguins*) comes a stirring portrait of French glaciologist Claude Lorius whose groundbreaking research in Antarctica gave us the first clear evidence of man-made global climate change. Through remarkable archival footage and stunning drone cinematography, this is an epic tale where science and adventure meet, equal parts contemplative memoir and an ardent call to action. Nominated for a...
64) Burned
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This documentary takes a hard look at the latest false solution to climate change: woody biomass. It tells the story of how biomass has become the alternative-energy savior for the power-generation industry. The film is a visceral account of the accelerating destruction of our forests for fuel. Winner of an Audience Choice Award at the **American Conservation Film Festival**.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
As global temperatures rise, scientists are exploring solutions from planting trees to sucking carbon out of the air to geoengineering. But would they work? And what are the risks of engineering Earth's climate?
Publisher
Ironbound Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST examines climate change like no other film before. The fate of the planet is considered from the perspective of American teenager Katie Crate. Over the course of five years, she travels alongside her mother Susie, an anthropologist studying the impact of climate change on indigenous communities. Their journey parallels that of renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead, who for decades sought to understand how global change affects remote...
68) The lost colony
Author
Series
Long winter novels (A. G. Riddle) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Can humanity survive on a new world? On Eos, the last survivors of the Long Winter face their greatest challenge yet--and race to unravel the deepest secrets of the grid.
The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Their new homeworld--Eos--seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems. The first colony of settlers--from the Carthage--have disappeared. Their settlement is still there,...
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 401 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Reeling from a crisis of hope, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd seeks out today's leading climate thinkers, from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. "If it's the end of the world, now what?" he asks, as he steers us through our climate angst in search of a "better catastrophe.""--
70) Nuclear now
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, filmmaker Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy an option that may become a vital way to ensure our continued survival sooner than we think.
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.
72) Infinity gate
Author
Series
Pandominion volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds. Except that they're really just one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an A.I. threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they'll eradicate it by whatever means necessary. Scientist Hadiz Tambuwal is looking for a solution to her own Earth's environmental collapse when she stumbles across the secret of inter-dimensional travel, a secret...
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.
74) Love thy nature
Publisher
In the Light Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (158 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Liam Neeson, Love Thy Nature points to how deeply we've lost touch with nature - and takes us on a mesmerizing cinematic journey through the beauty and intimacy of our relationship with the natural world. Neeson is the voice of "Sapiens" (our collective humankind) who, in the past few thousand years, has come to believe that we have transcended nature. Yet, experts uncover how a new era of nature-connection might just be dawning: "Biomimicry"...
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (172 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A breathtakingly beautiful 3-part science documentary series about the two extreme ends of the Earth, this series takes audiences on a journey of discovery both above and below the ice. As entertaining as it is informative, this series is bound to make us fall in love with the Earth's spectacular polar regions. The series also shines a light on the human perspective. While Antarctica is the only continent without an indigenous or permanent population,...
76) Once You Know
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Today, like a ship entering the storm, industrial civilization faces the first symptoms of energy depletion and climate change induced collapse as scientists assert that the opportunity to prevent catastrophic climate change has passed. Are some ways of collapsing better than others? Once You Know takes viewers on an intimate trek across the abyss of a world at the edge of catastrophe, into the intersection of climate science and civil disobedience....
77) Food for Change
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Our plate is our most powerful weapon in fighting global warming and in protecting our planet.Today, our diets play a major role in the threats weighing on our planet. But, there is hope. Investigative journalist Benoît Bringer sets off on a global search for women and men who are inventing a new dietary model - one which respects both humankind and nature. This documentary gives us hope, showing us how we can each be a force for change and develop...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
THE UNIVERSALITY OF IT ALL is a feature-length documentary that focuses on the topics of human migration and inequality. As intimate as it is informative, it explains the complexity of human migration by providing valuable data and information, but also by showing how it affects the reality of two friends and their day-to-day lives.
79) 12th Hour
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Can humans solve the climate crisis? 12th Hour delves into humanity's psychological resistance to ecological change, and why such changes are needed in order to avoid an irreversible cataclysm. Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which have developed naturally as part of human evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address a problem with the spatial and temporal scope...
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