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Starting Points: Guide to Global Warming

 
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Nonfiction - 3rd Floor  

Fight global warming now - 363.7387 McK

A handbook for taking action in your community.  


The hot topic--what we can do about global warming - 363.7387 Wal

Explores the causes and implications of global warming.  

 

Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change - 363.7392 Fee

Essays from E/The Environmental magazine.                                       
                      
The Weather Makers - How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth - 363.7392 Fla

A history of climate change, its unfolding over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Also available as an audio book. 
                                                 
Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists are Fueling the Climate Crisis--and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster - 363.7392 Gel

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ross Gelbspan argues that changes must be made now to save life on Earth.  
                                 
An Inconvenient Truth - 363.7392 Gor

Describes changes to the environment caused by global warming and the shift in environmental policy needed to avert disaster. Also available as dvd.                            

 

Field Notes from a Catastrophe - 363.7392 Kol

An explanation of global warming, incorporating interviews with researchers and environmentalists. Also available as an audio book.    

 

Earth, the sequel – the race to reinvent - 363.7392 Kru

Krupp, longtime president of the Environmental Defense Fund, and Horn present a stirring and hopeful call to arms as they feature the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it.  

High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis - 363.7392 Lyn

British journalist Mark Lynas travels the world detailing the effects of global warming, addresses the US’s contributing role and offers a six point manifesto to save the planet.  

 


Reference - 1st Floor  

Global Warming in the 21st Century -R 363.7392 Joh
v1. Our evolving climate crisis; v2. Melting ice and warming seas; v3.  Plants and animals in peril.    


Audio-Visual Room  - 2nd Floor

The politically incorrect guide to global warming - AD 363.7392 Hor

Presents arguments against predominant scientific thought on global warming.   

 

Global Warming, Global Threat - AD 363.7392 McE

Fourteen lectures on the interdependent systems regulating the of Earth’s environment; addresses air pollution, acid rain, ozone depletion, tropical forests destruction, and climate changes.  

   

Videos - 3rd Floor

Glaciers, clues to future climate - DVD YA 551.312
Explores how glaciologists are using new tools to study glaciers on the surface of the earth. Shows how satellites keep track of glacial growth or shrinkage in places like Antarctica, Greenland and Iceland.      

 

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Dewey Decimal browsing numbers: 363.7392
In addition to reference books, you may want to search for other books and materials (videos, audiobooks, etc.) on your topic. The best way to find good sources of information is to do a subject search in our Library catalog. You can access the Library catalog from the Library or from your home computer by going to our Web page (www.wppl.org), then to Search Our Catalog A good subject heading for this topic is global warming.

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