2010 Diary week 40 Climate Change Education Book Review These are some snippets from the review of Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University by Ann Rappaport and Sarah Hammond Creighton: “Global warming poses a threat to every institution in society, including colleges, universities, and their host communities. How we address the issue will …
2010 Diary week 39 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below you will find the review of Part VII of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “El Niňo is a periodic reversal of ocean currents, winds, and weather systems …
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2010 Diary week 38 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below you will find the review of Part VI of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “Today we can see this extraordinary climatic history recorded in ice cores extracted …
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2010 Diary week 37 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below you will find the review of Part V of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “Advances in geology revealed that not one ice age but a whole series …
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2010 Diary week 36 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below is the review of Part IV of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “Reason to fear truly does lurk in the frozen bogs of western Siberia. There, beneath …
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2010 Diary week 35 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below is the review of Part III of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “Over three days in March 2002, there occurred one of the most dramatic alterations to …
2010 Diary week 34 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part II of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce is posted below. These are some snippets: “Welcome to the Anthropocene, a new geological era. A single species is in charge of the planet, …
2010 Diary week 33 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Below you will find the review of Part 1 of With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce. These are some snippets: “The Greenland Sea occupies a basin between Greenland, Norway, Iceland, and the Arctic …
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2010 Diary week 32 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review The review of Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism by Harm de Blij will be found below. These are some snippets regarding climate change: “From about 10,000 years ago until today, humanity …
2010 Diary week 31 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review These are some snippets from Part IV of the review of The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery: “The Kyoto protocol may be the most bitterly contested international treaty …
