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  • Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 7)

    Injury Prevention and Environmental Health

    Edited by Charles N. Mock, Rachel Nugent, Olive Kobusingye, Kirk R. Smith ...
    Series series Disease Control Priorities
    The substantial burden of death and disability that results from interpersonal violence, road traffic injuries, unintentional injuries, occupational health risks, air pollution, climate change, and inadequate water and sanitation falls disproportionally on low- and middle-income countries. Injury Prevention and Environmental Health addresses the risk factors and presents updated data on the burden ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Earth And The Human Future

    Essays In Honor Of Harrison Brown

    by Kirk R Smith ...
    During the second half of the twentieth century, great changes have occurred in the natural sciences, spawned by the leap forward in physics during the war years and the growth in understanding of earth's history and place in the cosmos. Also, with the new and terrible consequences of full-fledged war, the nuclear age has brought to the fore the ne ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Global Greenhouse Regime

    Who Pays?

    by Kirk R. Smith ...
    Effective policies to prevent global warming and climatic change are urgently required by the world community. However, international negotiations on this issue repeatedly come up against the problems of allocating responsibility for the greenhouse effect, and bearing the costs of remedying the situation.;This volume offers a multidisciplinary response to the challenge. It presents the scientific, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Generation Us

    The Challenge of Global Warming

    by Andrew Weaver ...
    Series series Rapid Reads
    In clear and accessible language, Generation Us explains the phenomenon of global warming, outlines the threat it presents to future generations and offers a path toward solutions to the problem. The reality of global warming has long been accepted within the scientific community, yet it remains a hotly debated topic at the political and social level. Why is this? Is it the fact that the ultimate ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • A Bright Future

    How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

    by Joshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist ...
    The inspiration for Nuclear Now, the new Oliver Stone film, co-written by Joshua GoldsteinAs climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries have already replaced fossil fuels with low-carbon energy sources, and done so rapidly, in one to two decades. By following their methods, we could ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Climate Confusion

    How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

    by Roy W. Spencer ...
    The current frenzy over global warming has galvanized the public and cost taxpayers billons of dollars in federal expenditures for climate research. It has spawned Hollywood blockbusters and inspired major political movements. It has given a higher calling to celebrities and built a lucrative industry for scores of eager scientists. In short, ending climate change has become a national crusade.And ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • What We Know About Climate Change, second edition

    by Kerry Emanuel ...
    A renowned climatologist—and political conservative—assesses current scientific understanding of climate change and sounds a call to action.The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere—most dramatically since the 1970s. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Great Global Warming Blunder

    How Mother Nature Fooled the Worlds Top Climate Scientists

    by Roy W Spencer ...
    The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • How to Change Minds About Our Changing Climate

    by Seth B. Darling, Douglas L. Sisterson ...
    The book to spark action on the defining challenge of our time In our post-truth world, there's only one place to turn to if we want to live in reality: science. And the research on climate change is clear: It's real, it threatens us all, and human activity is the primary cause. This essential handbook dismantles all the most pernicious misunderstandings spread by deniers and replaces them with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nuclear 2.0

    Why a green future needs nuclear power

    by Mark Lynas ...
    Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming.While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world's power is dangerously delusional. In 2014, statistics showed that wind and solar power contributed only 1 per cent of ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • The Human Planet

    How We Created the Anthropocene

    by Simon L. Lewis, Mark A. Maslin ...
    An exploration of the Anthropocene and "a relentless reckoning of how we, as a species, got ourselves into the mess we're in today" ( The Wall Street Journal).Meteorites, mega-volcanoes, and plate tectonics—the old forces of nature—have transformed Earth for millions of years. They are now joined by a new geological force—humans. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Planet Remade

    How Geoengineering Could Change the World

    by Oliver Morton ...
    A fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planetThe risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists ... Read more

    $14.39 USD