The Weather Makers

Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555846335
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weather Makers written by Tim Flannery and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 international bestseller on climate change that’s been endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers, and energy executives around the world. Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to worldwide prominence. For the first time, a scientist provided an accessible and comprehensive account of the history, current status, and future impact of climate change, writing what has been acclaimed by reviewers everywhere as the definitive book on global warming. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point. The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Originally somewhat of a global warming skeptic, Tim Flannery spent several years researching the topic and offers a connect-the-dots approach for a reading public who has received patchy or misleading information on the subject. Pulling on his expertise as a scientist to discuss climate change from a historical perspective, Flannery also explains how climate change is interconnected across the planet. This edition includes a new afterword by the author. “An authoritative, scientifically accurate book on global warming that sparkles with life, clarity, and intelligence.” —The Washington Post

Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763636568
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We are the Weather Makers written by Tim Flannery and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's best seller The Weather Makers, this accessible new edition speaks directly to young adults, offering a clear 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.

Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141925973
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We are the Weather Makers written by Tim Flannery and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Flannery’s international bestseller The Weather Makers has sold over a million copies and influenced politicians, movie stars, even business leaders - after reading it, Sir Richard Branson pledged more than 3 billion dollars towards developing sustainable energy sources. We Are the Weather Makers is a concise and revised edition that will allow readers aged from nine to ninety to learn the real facts about the biggest question of our generation. Flannery takes us on a journey through history and around the globe, writing about hurricanes and droughts, coral reefs and polar bears, and wind energy and nuclear power. He shows us how, as we continue to heat the planet, humanity faces unprecedented dangers and challenges. We are the weather makers now.

Author : James Rodger Fleming
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231144121
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fixing the Sky written by James Rodger Fleming and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together stories from elite science, cutting-edge technology, and popular culture, Fleming examines issues of health and navigation in the 1830s, drought in the 1890s, aircraft safety in the 1930s, and world conflict since the 1940s.

Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925923738
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Climate Cure written by Tim Flannery and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent and essential call to arms from one of Australia’s most respected climate scientists, Tim Flannery. A compelling and solution-focused declaration of the action required to win the climate battle, and how change must start in our board rooms and parliaments.

Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802190928
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atmosphere of Hope written by Tim Flannery and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the #1 bestseller, The Weather Makers, pens “a brilliant examination of where we are with climate change and where we might be able to go” (The National Observer, Vancouver). Almost two decades ago, Tim Flannery’s #1 international bestseller, The Weather Makers, was one of the first books to break the topic of climate change out into the general conversation. Today, Earth’s climate system is fast approaching a crisis. Political leadership has not kept up, and public engagement with the issue of climate change has declined. Opinion is divided between technological optimists and pessimists who feel that catastrophe is inevitable. Around the world people are now living with the consequences of an altered climate—with intensified and more frequent storms, wildfires, droughts, and floods. For some it’s already a question of survival. Drawing on the latest science, Flannery gives a snapshot of the trouble we are in and more crucially, proposes a new way forward, including rapidly progressing clean technologies and a “third way” of soft geo-engineering. Tim Flannery, with his inimitable style, makes this urgent issue compelling and accessible. This is a must-read for anyone interested in our global future. “What Flannery provides—a convincing defense for the position that a path to averting catastrophic climate change still exists—is invaluable.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Author : Eric B. Schultz
Publisher : Carrier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780985069308
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weathermakers to the World written by Eric B. Schultz and published by Carrier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an overview of Carrier Corporation's 110-year history." --from last page

Author : Jennifer E. Smith
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316202916
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Storm Makers written by Jennifer E. Smith and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the world of The Storm Makers, where there's magic behind every forecast. What starts as an ordinary summer turns exciting and perilous for twins Ruby and Simon when strange occurrences begin happening on their farm -- sudden gusts of wind, rainstorms, and even tornado warnings -- that seem eerily timed to Simon's emotions. Then a stranger arrives and tells the twins that Simon is a Storm Maker -- part of a clandestine group of people entrusted with controlling and taming the weather -- and that he is in great danger. Soon Simon and Ruby must race against the clock as they try to master Simon's powers in time to stop a rogue Storm Maker's treacherous -- and potentially deadly -- plans. In this thrilling new adventure, loyalties can shift as quickly as the wind . . . and the ordinary can turn extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802198961
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now or Never written by Tim Flannery and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forceful call to climate change action and a pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability from the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers. Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery offers a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and their potential solutions in both the big picture and in specific detail. He explores everything from techniques for storing the carbon that dead plants release into the earth to the fragile balancing act between energy demands and food supply in India and China, from carbon-trading schemes in South America to a collaboration between a Danish wind-energy company and an automobile manufacturer that may produce a viable electric car and end the reign of big oil. Now or Never is a powerful, thought-provoking, and essential book about the most urgent issue of our time. It burns with Flannery’s characteristic mix of passion, scientific precision, and “offhand interdisciplinary brilliance” (Entertainment Weekly). “Shocking . . . [Flannery] writes for a general audience with passion and clarity.” —Jim Hansen

Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620409895
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field Notes from a Catastrophe written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe). Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today. But in the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding grows. Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She has added a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus three new chapters--on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral--making it, again, a must-read for our moment.