Global Warming

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BOOKS

 

 

 

 

 

304.2 McK   McKibben, Bill. The end of nature.    Describes the greenhouse effect and other environmental cataclysms brought about by man.  

333.95 Wei Weiner, Jonathan. The next one hundred years shaping the fate of our living Earth.      Discusses global warming, habitat destruction and the Gaia hypothesis of Earth as a self-adjusting organism.  

363.7 Chr  Christianson, Gale E. Greenhouse : the 200-year story of global warming.    Discusses the causes and consequences of global warming and what it means for the future of the world.  

363.7 Gay  Gay, Kathlyn. The greenhouse effect.    Examines evidence that rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be changing the earth's climate. Also discusses how and why scientists study climatic changes.  

363.7 Sch Schneider, Stephen H. Global warming are we entering the greenhouse century   Attempts to summarize current scientific knowledge about the greenhouse effect.  

363.73 Bil Bilger, Burkhard. Global warming.    Examines the phenomenon of global warming, discussing the greenhouse effect in its positive, life-giving configuration, and again as this mechanism is knocked out of balance by increased levels of carbon gases.  

363.73 Glo Global warming : opposing viewpoints.   

363.73 Glo Global warming.    Presents a collection of essays on the realities and myths surrounding the greenhouse effect and the earth's climate change.  

363.73 Nar  Nardo, Don, 1947- Ozone.    Discusses the nature and necessity of ozone in relation to the global environment and air pollution, and examines the greenhouse effect and ways to prevent it.  

363.738 Gor   Gore, Albert.  An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.     

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

363.738 Mcc Global climate change.  

363.738 Ste Stein, Paul. Storms of the future.  This book examines how storms fit in with the ever-changing weather machine, discussing how global warming may contribute to a change in climate and how weather patterns show the potential for increased hurricane activity.  

551.5 Phi  Philander, S. George. Is the temperature rising? : the uncertain science of global warming.  Gives the nonscientific reader an appreciation of the scientific understanding of climate change.  

551.6 Bel  Bell, Art. The coming global superstorm.   

551.6 Car Carpenter, Clive. The changing world of weather.    An account of the weather, showing that the Earth and its atmosphere are forever changing and always fascinating. Includes chapters on the greenhouse effect and rain forests. Also, four pages and an illustration on the ozone layer.  

551.6 Fac   Facklam, Margery. Changes in the wind : earth's shifting climate.  Examines the factors causing changes in the earth's climate, including ocean currents, the destruction of the rain forests, and the greenhouse effect, and discusses predictions for the future.  

551.6 McC Our endangered atmosphere : global warming & the ozone layer.

 

WEBSITES

Global Warming: Frequently Asked Questions, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

Global Warming: Early Warning Signs http://www.climatehotmap.org/

Climate Change, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html 

Global Warming Facts & Our Future, National Academy of Science
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/ 

As the World Burns, special report from Mother Jones magazine http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/world_burns.html  

Global Land Ice Measurements from Space http://www.glims.org/  

Climate Warming as Siberia Melts http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725124.500  

Ozone Hole Tour, University of Cambridge Centre for Atmospheric Science
http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/part1.html  

What has been happening to polar bears in recent decades?  National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration  http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_schliebe.html  

SEE the Librarian Internet Index for more recommended websites http://lii.org/

 

MAGAZINES

The following are the titles of magazines in the library that cover environmental issues on a regular basis.  We keep back issues.  Also provided here are links to the magazine's own websites.

Also, go to the library's homepage to use the ProQuest and eLibrary databases for more newspaper, magazine, journal articles and more.

E: the environment magazine     http://www.emagazine.com/

Mother Earth News    http://www.motherearthnews.com/

National Geographic     http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Nature Conservancy    http://www.nature.org/

Orion    http://www.oriononline.org/

Permaculture     http://www.permaculture.co.uk/main2.html

Scientific American     http://www.sciam.com/

Washington Wildlands     http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/washington/

Yes     http://www.yesmagazine.org/

 

   

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