The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change
ISBN: 9780143121893 | 0143121898
Edition: OriginalFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date: 3/27/2012
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Our most widely respected environmental writer brings together the essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the present What is happening to our planet? And what can we do about it? The Global Warming Readerprovides more than thirty-five answers to these burning questions, from more than one hundred years of engagement with the topic. Here is Elizabeth Kolbert's groundbreaking essay "The Darkening Sea," Michael Crichton's skeptical view of climate change, George Monbiot's biting indictment of those who are really u... MORE
| Introduction | p. 9 |
| Science | |
| On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground | p. 19 |
| The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature | p. 33 |
| Carbon Dioxide Exchange between Atmosphere and Ocean and the Question of an Increase of Atmospheric CO2 during the Past Decades | p. 39 |
| The Keeling Curve | p. 45 |
| Statement of Dr. Jam... MORE | p. 47 |
| Summary for Policymakers: The Science of Climate Change IPCC Working Group I | p. 55 |
| The "Anthropocene" | p. 69 |
| The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change | p. 75 |
| Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim? | p. 81 |
| Causes of the Russian Heat Wave and Pakistani Floods | p. 89 |
| Politics | |
| from Earth in the Balance | p. 97 |
| "The Battle for Control of Reality" from The Heat Is On | p. 105 |
| Remarks at the Kyoto Climate Change Conference | p. 127 |
| "Is Your Stomach Too Full?" from Earth Odyssey | p. 135 |
| The Science of Climate Change: Senate Floor Statement | p. 165 |
| from State of Fear | p. 193 |
| from An Inconvenient Truth | p. 209 |
| from The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems | p. 211 |
| Climate Generation:! The Evolution of the Energy Action Coalition's Strategy | p. 225 |
| To Really Save the Planet, Stop Going Green | p. 233 |
| Climate Rage | p. 239 |
| This Is Fucked Up-It's Time to Get Mad, and Then Busy | p. 251 |
| The Green Generation | p. 259 |
| The Population Myth | p. 269 |
| Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near | p. 275 |
| Speech at Klimaforum | p. 285 |
| Impact | |
| from The End of Nature | p. 293 |
| John 5:1-9 | p. 299 |
| Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action | p. 309 |
| An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security | p. 319 |
| "The Briefing" from Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers | p. 351 |
| Images | p. 361 |
| Climate Change and Agriculture | p. 365 |
| Images | p. 373 |
| The Darkening Sea: What Carbon Emissions Are Doing to the Ocean | p. 377 |
| Nepal's Farmers on the Front Line of Global Climate Change | p. 401 |
| References | p. 405 |
| Index | p. 417 |
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Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, and The Age of Missing Information. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as Outside, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books, and a former staff writer at the New Yorker.
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