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Forty Signs of Rain (Science in the Capital #1)
The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications o...f global warming as they are played out in our nation’s capital—and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines.When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That was last year.It’s an increasingly steamy summer in the nation’s capital as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler cares for his young son and deals with the frustrating politics of global warming. Charlie must find a way to get a skeptical administration to act before it’s too late—and his progeny find themselves living in Swamp World. But the political climate poses almost as great a challenge as the environmental crisis when it comes to putting the public good ahead of private gain. While Charlie struggles to play politics, his wife, Anna, takes a more rational approach to the looming crisis in her work at the National Science Foundation. There a proposal has come in for a revolutionary process that could solve the problem of global warming—if it can be recognized in time. But when a race to control the budding technology begins, the stakes only get higher. As these everyday heroes fight to align the awesome forces of nature with the extraordinary march of modern science, they are unaware that fate is about to put an unusual twist on their work—one that will place them at the heart of an unavoidable storm. With style, wit, and rare insight into our past, present, and possible future, this captivating novel propels us into a world on the verge of unprecedented change—in a time quite like our own. Here is Kim Stanley Robinson at his visionary best, offering a gripping cautionary tale of progress—and its price—as only he can tell it.Publishers WeeklyIn this cerebral near-future novel, the first in a trilogy, Robinson (The Years of Rice and Salt) explores the events leading up to a worldwide catastrophe brought on by global warming. Each of his various viewpoint characters holds a small piece of the puzzle and can see calamity coming, but is helpless before the indifference of the politicians and capitalists who run America. Anna Quibler, a National Science Foundation official in Washington, D.C., sifts through dozens of funding proposals each day, while her husband, Charlie, handles life as a stay-at-home dad and telecommutes to his job as an environmental adviser to a liberal senator. Another scientist, Frank Vanderwal, finds his sterile worldview turned upside down after attending a lecture on Buddhist attitudes toward science given by the ambassador from Khembalung, a nation virtually inundated by the rising Indian Ocean. Robinson's tale lacks the drama and excitement of such other novels dealing with global climate change as Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather and John Barnes's Mother of Storms, but his portrayal of how actual scientists would deal with this disaster-in-the-making is utterly convincing. Robinson clearly cares deeply about our planet's future, and he makes the reader care as well. Agent, Ralph Vicinanza. (June 8) FYI: Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red Mars, etc.) received one Nebula and two Hugo awards. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Sometime This Century The Day Will Arrive When The Human Influence On The Climate Will Overwhelm All Other Natural Factors. Over The Past Decade, The World Has Seen The Most Powerful El Nino Ever Reco...rded, The Most Devastating Hurricane In Two Hundred Years, The Hottest European Summer On Record, And One Of The Worst Storm Seasons Ever Experienced In Florida. 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. [this Book] 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. Along With A Riveting History Of Climate Change, [the Author] Offers Specific Suggestions For Action For Both Lawmakers And Individuals, From Investing In Renewable Power Sources Like Wind, Solar, And Geothermal Energy, To Offering An Action Plan With Steps Each And Every One Of Us Can Take Right Now To Reduce Deadly Co2 Emissions By As Much As 70 Percent.-dust Jacket. Includes Information On Acidity In Ocean, Air Pollution, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Coal, Coral Reefs, Extinctions, Global Warming, Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Gases, Hurricanes, Kyoto Protocol, Montreal Protocol, Oil, Ozone, Plankton, Rainfall, Solar Power, Sunlight, Nuclear Power, Wind Power, Geothermal Energy, The Slow Awakening -- 1: Gaia's Tools -- Gaia -- The Great Aerial Ocean -- The Gaseous Greenhouse -- The Sages And The Onion Skin -- Time's Gateways -- Born In The Deep Freeze -- Making The Long Summer -- Digging Up The Dead -- 2: One In Ten Thousand -- The Unraveling World -- Peril At The Poles -- The Great Stumpy Reef? -- A Warning From The Golden Toad -- Liquid Gold: Changes In Rainfall -- An Energetic Onion Skin -- Playing At Canute -- 3: The Science Of Prediction -- Model Worlds -- The Commitment And Approaching Extreme Danger -- Leveling The Mountains -- How Can They Keep On Moving? -- Boiling The Abyss -- The Pack Of Jokers -- Civilization: Out With A Whimper? -- 4: People In Greenhouses -- A Close-run Thing -- The Road To Kyoto -- Cost, Cost, Cost -- People In Greenhouses Shouldn't Tell Lies -- Engineering Solutions? -- Last Steps On The Stairway To Heaven? -- 5: The Solution -- Bright As Sunlight, Light As Wind -- Nuclear Lazarus? -- Of Hybrids, Minicats, And Contrails -- The Last Act Of God? -- The Carbon Dictatorship? -- Time's Up -- Over To You. Tim Flannery. Originally Published In 2005 By Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, Australia -- T.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [320]-343) And Index.
Green Earth
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Climate Changed: A Personal Journey through the Science
What Are The Causes And Consequences Of Climate Change? When The Scale Is So Big, Can An Individual Make Any Difference? Documentary, Diary, And Masterwork Graphic Novel, This Up-to-date Look At Our P...lanet And How We Live On It Explains What Global Warming Is All About. With The Most Complicated Concepts Made Clear By Investigative Journalist And Artist Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Changed Weaves Together Scientific Research, Extensive Interviews With Experts, And A Call For Action. Weighing The Potential Of Some Solutions And The False Promises Of Others, This Groundbreaking Work Provides A Realistic, Balanced View Of The Magnitude Of The Crisis That An Inconvenient Truth Only Touched On-- Philippe Squarzoni ; Introduction By Nicole Whittington-evans, Alaska Regional Director, The Wilderness Society ; Translated By Ivanka Hahnenberger. Inlcudes Bibliographical Refeerences (p. 471-473) And Index.
Climate Wars
The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change Predicts That The Average Global Temperature Will Rise Between 2 Degrees And 6.4 Degrees Celsius By The End Of This Century. These Are Conservative Estima...tes, Based On A Lowest-common-denominator Consensus Among Scientists And Further Watered Down By Governments. They Make No Allowance For Feedback Phenomena And Potential Runaway Heating. But A World Bank Study In India Last Year Suggested That Even 2 Degrees Hotter Means A 25 Percent Cut In Indian Food Production. The Core Problem With Climate Changes Is Not Sea Level Rise Or Bio-diversity; It Is Food Supply.--provided By Publisher. The Year 2045 -- The Geopolitics Of Climate Change -- Russia, 2019 -- An Inevitable Crisis -- United States, 2029 -- Feedbacks: How Much, How Fast? -- Northern India, 2036 -- We Can Fix This... -- A Happy Tale -- ... But Probably Not In Time -- China, 2042 -- Emergency Measures -- Wipeout -- Childhood's End. Gwynne Dyer. Includes Index.
The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
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Climate Change: The Facts
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Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Explains The Fast-approaching Climate Crisis While Drawing On The Latest Scientific Findings To Outline Promising Clean Technologies Involving Soft Geo-engineering. Part One: Climate Science. The Weat...her Makers: Right Or Wrong? ; The Waters Of A Warming World ; Ominously Acidic Oceans ; How Are The Animals Doing? ; The Great Climate Event Horizon -- Part Two: The Knife Blade We Perch On. The Great Disconnect ; Coal : Decline Of A Giant ; What Future, Oil? ; Gas : Last Hurrah Or Bridge To The Future? ; Divestment And The Carbon Bubble ; Where's Nuclear? ; Sunlight And Wind : Winning The Race ; At Last, Evs -- Part Three: Fight For The Future. Adapting? ; Geoengineering : A Way Out? ; The Gigatonne Challenge ; Silicate Rocks, Cement And Smart Chemistry ; The New Carbon Capture And Storage ; The 2030 Challenge ; Deadline 2050 ; The Growing Power Of The Individual. Tim Flannery. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 217-238) And Index.
The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet
Droughts. Floods. Climate Refugees. Global Warming Isn't Just About Polar Bears Anymore. Let's Assume We Do Nothing About Climate Change. Imagine That We Just Continue To Emit Carbon At Our Curre...nt Levels Or Even Exceed Those Levels. How Would Our Weather Change? What Would Our Forecast Be? Welcome To the Weather Of The Future. in This Groundbreaking Work, Dr. Heidi Cullen, One Of The World's Foremost Climatologists And Environmental Journalists, Puts A Vivid Face On Climate Change, Offering A New Way Of Seeing This Phenomenon Not Just As An Event Set To Happen In The Distant Future But As Something Happening Right Now In Our Own Backyards. Arguing That We Must Connect The Weather Of Today With The Climate Change Of Tomorrow, Cullen Combines The Latest Research From Scientists On The Ground With State-of-the-art Climate-model Projections To Create Climate-change Scenarios For Seven Of The Most At-risk Locations Around The World. from The Central Valley Of California, Where Coming Droughts Will Jeopardize The Entire State's Water Supply, To Greenland, Where Warmer Temperatures Will Give Access To Mineral Wealth Buried Beneath Ice Sheets For Millennia, Cullen Illustrates How, If Left Unabated, Climate Change Will Transform Every Corner Of The World By Midcentury. What Emerges Is A Mosaic Of Changing Weather Patterns That Collectively Spell Out The Range Of Risks Posed By Global Warming—whether It's New York City, Whose Infrastructure Is Extremely Vulnerable To Even A Relatively Weak Category 3 Hurricane, Or Bangladesh, A Country So Low-lying That Millions Of People Could Become Climate Refugees Due To Rising Sea Levels. provocative And Convincing, the Weather Of The Future Makes Climate Change Local, Showing How No Two Regions Of The Country Or The World Will Be Affected In Quite The Same Way, And Demonstrating That Melting Ice Is Just The Beginning. the New York Times - Michiko Kakutani although weather Of The Future Sounds Like An Exercise In Speculation, Ms. Cullen Grounds Her Harrowing Predictions—extrapolations, Really—in The Best Available Science Derived From An Array Of Climate Models, Environmental Data And Interviews With Scientists. And Her Forecasts Actually Turn Out To Be An Armature For Discussing The Fallout Of Climate Change (from Rising Sea Levels To More Extreme Weather) In An Accessible, Tactile Fashion And For Examining Existing Liabilities In Various Regions And Cities, Like Overstretched Infrastructure And Dwindling Water Supplies.
A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
A Proven, Fast, Inexpensive, Practical Way To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change. As Climate Change Nears Potentially Disastrous Tipping Points, A Solution Is Hiding ...In Plain Sight. Several Countries Have Successfully Replaced Fossil Fuels With Low-carbon Energy Sources By Combining Renewable Energy With A Quick Buildout Of Nuclear Power. By Following Their Example, The World Could Dramatically Cut Fossil Fuel Use By Midcentury, Even As Energy Consumption Continues To Rise. Joshua Goldstein And Staffan Qvist Explain How Clean Energy Rapidly Replaced Fossil Fuels In Such Places As Sweden, France, And Ontario, While Enhancing Both Prosperity And The Natural Environment. Engagingly Written, Yet Backed By Deep Research, This Book Will Encourage A Fresh Look At The Assumptions That Have Long Shaped The Climate Change Debate. The Stakes Are Extraordinarily High And The Deadline For Action Is Near. This Clear And Compelling Book Could Spark The Transformation In Energy Policy That The World Needs.--dust Jacket. Decarbonization: Climate Won't Wait ; What Sweden Did ; What Germany Did -- Half Measures: More Energy, Not Less ; 100 Percent Renewables? ; Methane Is Still Fossil -- Facing Fears: Safest Energy Ever ; Risks And Fears ; Handling Waste ; Preventing Proliferation -- The Way Forward: Keep What We've Got ; Next-generation Technology ; China, Russia, India ; Pricing Carbon Pollution ; Act Globally. Joshua S. Goldstein And Staffan A. Qvist. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 229-264) And Index.
