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1) The heat will kill you first: life and death on a scorched planet

Author

Goodell, Jeff

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory...

2) The water will come: rising seas, sinking cities, and the remaking of the civilized world

Author

Goodell, Jeff

Pub. Date

2017.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. With each crack in the great ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctica, and each tick upwards of Earth's...

3) How to cool the planet: geoengineering and the audacious quest to fix earth's climate

Author

Goodell, Jeff

Pub. Date

2010.

Language

English

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Right now, a group of scientists is working on ways to minimize the catastrophic impact of global warming. But they're not designing hybrids or fuel cells or wind turbines. They're trying to lower the temperature of the entire planet. And they're doing it with huge contraptions that suck CO2 from the air, machines that brighten clouds and deflect sunlight away from the earth, even artificial volcanoes that spray heat-reflecting particles into the...