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Pre-Owned The Suicidal Planet : How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe 9780786296705 Used

An outstanding overview of global warming--and solutions to the global crisis--from a distinguished world-class authority. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not... more

Pre-Owned How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in - USED - GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help. ISBN-10:... more

Pre-Owned Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change: How to Understand and Respond to Climate Science Deniers (Paperback 9780806540276) by John Cook

9780806540276. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 176. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that humans are causing global warming.... more

Routledge Advances in Climate Change Res Local Activism for Global Climate Justice: The Great Lakes Watershed (Hardcover)

This book will inspire and spark grassroots action to address the inequitable impacts of climate change by showing how this can be tackled and the many benefits of doing so. With contributions from climate activists and engaged young authors this... more

The Carbon Crunch : How We re Getting Climate Change Wrong--And How to Fix It 9780300186598 Used / Pre-owned

In this hard-hitting book Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new pragmatic rethinking of energy policy. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition:... more

The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth 9780802142924 Used / Pre-owned

An international best seller embraced and endorsed by policy makers scientists writers and energy industry executives from around the world Tim Flannery sThe Weather Makerscontributed in bringing the topic of global warming to national prominence. For... more

The Edge : How competition for resources is pushing the world and its climate to the brink – and what we can do about it (Hardcover)

We live in a World which though the origins are long seems suddenly transformed by economic events way out of our control. In seeking stability we must acknowledge the seismic scale of the challenge and understand the devastating impact of global... more

A Warmer World : From Polar Bears to Butterflies How Climate Change Affects Wildlife (Paperback)

This picture book introduction to climate change and its impact on wildlife engages young nature-lovers as they learn about ecosystems environments and global warming. Species by species from polar bear to butterfly acclaimed nonfiction children s... more

Global Energy Dilemmas: Energy Security Globalization and Climate Change (Hardcover)

Today s global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform to a low-carbon efficient and environmentally harmless energy supply. In this rigorous and illuminating... more

Global Energy Dilemmas: Energy Security Globalization and Climate Change (Paperback)

Today s global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform to a low-carbon efficient and environmentally harmless energy supply. In this rigorous and illuminating... more

NATO Asi Subseries I:: Gravity Wave Processes: Their Parameterization in Global Climate Models (Paperback)

The subject of this volume is the observation and modelling of the gravity wave field in the atmosphere. The focus is on the question of how to include the effects of small-scale gravity waves in sophisticated global climate models. The book comprises... more

Pre-Owned The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era Progress Prosperity Hardcover Nicholas Stern

A world-renowned economist s authoritative assessment of the price of global warming vividly illuminates the scale of the problem the urgency to address it now and where--and how--to begin CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition.... more

Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management: Global Forest Governance and Climate Change: Interrogating Representation Participation and Decentralization (Paperback)

This edited collection assesses governance in forestry programmes and projects including REDD+ governance. It examines political representation participation and decentralisation in forest governance providing insight as to how forest governance... more

Health and Climate Change: Modelling the impacts of global warming and ozone depletion (Paperback)

Understanding how complex ecological and climatic change can influence human health is the new challenge before us. The book confronts these multidimensional risk assessments head-on and will catalyse the important interdisciplinary and integrated... more

Integrated Regional Assessment of Global Climate Change (Hardcover)

Integrated Regional Assessment (IRA) promotes a better understanding of how regions contribute to global environmental change. This book provides a detailed treatment of the methodological challenges of IRA and a set of international examples... more

Cars and Carbon: Automobiles and European Climate Policy in a Global Context (Hardcover)

This volume contains articles from leading analysts and researchers on sustainable transportation who provide critical reflections on how automobile-related climate policies have evolved up to now in Europe and around the world in view of the widely... more

Pre-Owned Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis (Paperback 9781503631083) by Eve Darian-Smith

9781503631083. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 230. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 230 p. Contains: Unspecified. How extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are prioritizing profits over... more

Runaway Climate: What the Geological Past Can Tell Us about the Coming Climate Change Catastrophe (Paperback)

With tipping points and extreme global warming looming the key to understanding our climate future lies in our distant past With rising emissions we are on track to cause rapid global warming with devastating con- sequences. But how bad could climate... more

Regional Climate Studies: Climate Change in North America (Paperback)

This book details the climate of North American over the past 65 million years. It explains how global climate models are used to simulate climate and presents the application of these models to reproduce recent climate variations and predict future... more

Pre-Owned Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse (Hardcover 9781848130241) by Oliver Tickell

9781848130241. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 304. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. The Kyoto Protocol the world s first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change has failed.... more

Pre-Owned Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse Paperback

9781848130258. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 304. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 304 p. The Kyoto Protocol the world s first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change has failed. We... more

Global Weirdness: Severe Storms Deadly Heat Waves Relentless Drought Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future (Paperback)

Sixty easty-to-read essays that enlarge our understanding of how climate change affects our daily lives and arms us with the incontrovertible facts we need to make informed decisions about the future of the planet and of humankind. A breath of fresh... more

Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy (Hardcover)

This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber a prominent sociologist and political economist shows that global warming is a symptom of deep pathologies in global capitalism.... more

INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment: Weather Climate and the Geographical Imagination : Placing Atmospheric Knowledges (Hardcover)

As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity s greenhouse gas emissions new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather of the cultural values which are afforded to climate and of how environmental futures... more

Earth in Danger: Climate Change (Hardcover)

Climate change is no joke! Discover how our weather is constantly changing and how too much change is not a good thing as global warming heats up Earth. Melting ice caps desert droughts and severe storms; climate change is affecting us all. Discover... more

International Environmental Governance S Protecting the Atmosphere: The Climate Change Convention and its context (Paperback)

The authors take us into less-known corridors of climate Realpolitik and energy power play. We are provided with the essential vocabulary to understand what is at stake and how the challenge should be tackled Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Global warming... more

Basics: Air Pollution and Climate Change: The Basics (Paperback)

This book identifies four key forms of air pollution: indoor urban regional and global. It discusses how these four types of pollution are manifest in today s society and examines the scientific and policy challenges that stand in the way of progress.... more

The Ice Ark : How Stem Cell Science Can Help Save the Planet (Hardcover)

The great problems of our time are increasingly global in nature. Climate change and pandemics for example have no respect for geopolitical borders. Policies to address such critical challenges must therefore necessarily be conceived and enacted at... more

Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate (Paperback)

Why is the scientific community so unified? In the last 350-odd years the international scientific community has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change and a... more

Pre-Owned Global Warming: The Complete Briefing (Paperback) 1107463793 9781107463790

How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? Sir John Houghton s definitive full colour guide to climate change answers these questions and more by providing the best and latest... more

Global Environmental Change: An Atmospheric Perspective (Paperback)

This book describes how the atmosphere works as a global entity to maintain a given global climate or to maintain an adequate ozone shield. It focuses on the two aspects of global change brought about by human activities: a global change in climate and... more

Humanity s Last Stand : Confronting Global Catastrophe (Paperback)

Exploring the interconnections between climate change global capitalism xenophobia and white supremacy this book dares to ask big questions about how humanity can stand together in a time of crisis. It teaches readers how to develop radical empathy... more

Pre-Owned Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems 9780521578103

How will the world s vegetation from natural ecosystems to intensively managed agricultural systems be affected by changes in land use the composition of gases in the atmosphere and climate? This major new book describes the current state of knowledge.... more

Global Warming (Paperback)

The Earth s climate is changing. Scientists are highly confident that many of these observed changes can be linked to the climbing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere which are caused by human activities. how much... more

Pre-Owned Global Environmental Change: An Atmospheric Perspective (Paperback) 0471130737 9780471130734

9780471130734. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 160. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. This book describes how the atmosphere works as a global entity to maintain a given global climate or to maintain an... more

Pre-Owned Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming (Hardcover 9781597261975) by Anthony D Barnosky

9781597261975. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 288. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. How is wildlife adapting to climate change? In 2006 one of the hottest years on record a pizzly was... more

Hydroclimatology: Perspectives and Applications (Hardcover)

Hydroclimatology provides a systematic structure for analyzing how the climate system causes time and space variations (both global and local) in the hydrologic cycle. Changes in the relationship between the climate system and the hydrologic cycle... more

Hydroclimatology: Perspectives and Applications (Paperback)

Hydroclimatology provides a systematic structure for analyzing how the climate system causes time and space variations (both global and local) in the hydrologic cycle. Changes in the relationship between the climate system and the hydrologic cycle... more