Climate change : picturing the science

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Author:

Schmidt, Gavin.

ISBN:

9780393331257

Personal Author:

Schmidt, Gavin.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.

Physical Description:

xii, 305 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Foreword / Jeffrey D. Sachs -- Introduction / Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe -- Pt. I. Symptoms -- 1. Taking the Temperature of the Planet / Peter deMenocal -- Photo Essay- Gary Braasch: Climate Change in the United States -- 2. Changes in the North / Stephanie Pfirman -- Essay - Elizabeth Kolbert: Reporting on Climate Change -- 3. Sea Changes / Anastasia Romanou -- Essay - Kim Cobb: Letter from Palmyra -- 4. Going to Extremes / Adam Sobel -- 5. The Life of the Party / Shahid Naeem -- Pt. II. Diagnosis -- 6. Climate Drivers / Tim Hall -- Essay-Naomi Oreskes: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change -- 7. Studying Climate / Gavin Schmidt and Peter deMenocal -- Photo Essay - Peter Essick: Scientists Studying Climate Change -- 8. The Prognosis for the Climate / Gavin Schmidt -- Pt. III. Possible Cures -- 9. Getting Our Technological Fix / Frank Zeman -- Photo Essay - Joshua Wolfe: Adaptation: Fighting Mother Earth.

10. Preventative Planetary Care / David Leonard Downie, Lyndon Valicenti and Gavin Schmidt -- Essay- Johannes Loschnigg: The Climate on the Hill -- A Final Note / Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe.

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Summary

An unprecedented union of scientific analysis and stunning photography illustrating the effects of climate change on the global ecosystem.

Going beyond the headlines, this work by leading NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and master photographer Joshua Wolfe illustrates as never before the ramifications of shifting climate. Photographic spreads show retreating glaciers, sinking villages in Alaska's tundra, and drying lakes. The text follows adventurous scientists through the ice caps at the poles to the coral reefs of the tropical seas. Marshaling data spanning centuries and continents, the book sparkles with cutting-edge research and visual records, including contributions from experts on atmospheric science, oceanography, paleoclimatology, technology, politics, and the polar regions. As Jeffrey D. Sachs writes in his powerful foreword, " Climate Change is a tour de force of public education."

160 color illustrations