Main entry:

Kolbert, Elizabeth.

Title & Author:

Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change / Elizabeth Kolbert.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Pub. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.

Description:

210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index.
Shishmaref, Alaska -- A warmer sky -- Under the glacier -- The butterfly and the toad -- The curse of Akkad -- Floating houses -- Business as usual -- The day after Kyoto -- Burlington, Vermont -- Man in the Anthropocene.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

New Yorker writer Kolbert tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous course, now is the moment to salvage our future. By the end of the century, the world will likely be hotter than it's been in the last two million years, and the sweeping consequences of this change will determine the future of life on earth for generations to come. Kolbert approaches this monumental problem from every angle. She travels to the Arctic, interviews researchers and environmentalists, explains the science and the studies, draws frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations, unpacks the politics, and presents the personal tales of those who are being affected most--the people who make their homes near the poles and are watching their worlds disappear.--From publisher description.

Resources:
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1596911255
9781596911253
9780739475065
0739475061

Subject:

Global warming.
Global temperature changes.
Global environmental change.
Global Warming
Réchauffement de la Terre.
Température atmosphérique Modification à l'échelle planétaire.
Changement global (Environnement)
global warming.
Broeikaseffect.
Climate.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293656
Call No.: BIB 238766
Status: Available