Global climate change /

Global climate change /

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Imprint:Bronx, NY : H. W. Wilson Company, 2006.
Description:viii, 192 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:The reference shelf ; v. 78, no. 1
Reference shelf v. 78, no. 1.
Subject:
Climatic changes.
Global warming.
Climatic changes.
Global warming.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6020021
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Other authors / contributors:McCaffrey, Paul, 1977-
ISBN:082421059X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-185) and index.
Standard no.:9780824210595
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • I. Science and Skepticism: Climate Change and the Greenhouse Effect
  • Editor's Introduction
  • 1. Heat: How We Got Here. Ian Sample: The Guardian (London)
  • 2. The Proof is in the Science. Roger Di Silvestro: National Wildlife
  • 3. Strange Science. Thomas Sieger Derr: First Things
  • 4. Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias. Jules Boykoff and Maxwell Boykoff: Extra!
  • 5. The New Extreme Sport. William Burroughs: The Guardian (London)
  • 6. Climate Change: Errors in Temperature Data Mask Evidence of Warming-Studies. Greenwire
  • II. Vanishing Glaciers, Rising Tides: Global Warming's Toll Thus Far
  • Editor's Introduction
  • 1. As the Arctic Melts, an Ancient Culture Faces Ruin Charles Wohlforth: National Wildlife
  • 2. A Bit of Icy Antarctica Is Sliding Toward the Sea. Richard A. Kerr: Science
  • 3. The Big Thaw. Daniel Glick: National Geographic
  • 4. Human Prints on Warming. Bryn Nelson: Newsday
  • 5. One Expedition's Story: UN Chronicle
  • 6. Global Warming: The Culprit? Jeffrey Kluger: Time
  • 7. A Season a Tad off Color, and Here's Why Avi Salzman: The New York Times
  • 8. Arid Arizona Points to Global Warming as Culprit. Juliet Eilperin: The Washington Post
  • 9. Climate Change Means Big Changes in Puget Sound. Craig Welch: The Seattle Times
  • 10. A Darkening Sky. Charles W. Petit: U.S. News & World Report
  • III. Armageddon Approaching? What the Future Holds
  • Editor's Introduction
  • 1. Abrupt Climate Change. Richard B. Alley: Scientific American
  • 2. Crossing the Threshold. Peter Bunyard: The Ecologist
  • 3. Dire Warming Warning for Earth's Species. Jane Kay: The San Francisco Chronicle
  • 4. Northeast Seen Getting Balmier. Michael Powell: The Washington Post
  • 5. Risk to State Dire in Climate Study. Miguel Bustillo: Los Angeles Times
  • 6. Continental Divide: Why Africa's Climate Change Burden Is Greater. Scott Fields: Environmental Health Perspectives
  • IV. What Can Be Done? Kyoto and Beyond
  • Editor's Introduction
  • 1. Kyoto Update. Lynn Elsey: Weatherwise
  • 2. It's the Emissions, Stupid. Paul Tolmé: National Wildlife
  • 3. Oil Project Goes Underground for Cleaner Air. Gary Polakovic: Los Angeles Times
  • 4. Carbon Emissions Trading Is New Weapon to Battle Global Warming. Brad Foss. Associated Press
  • 5. Global Warming and Nuclear Power Richard A. Meserve: Science
  • 6. Is Hydrogen the Solution? Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
  • 7. The Warming Is Global but the Legislating, in the U.S., Is All Local. Jennifer 8. Lee: The New York Times
  • Appendix
  • Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Frame work Convention on Climate Change
  • Bibliography
  • Books
  • Web Sites
  • Additional Periodical Articles with Abstracts
  • Index

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