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Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything by Patrick J. Michaels & Paul C. Knappenberger
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Patrick J. Michaels & Paul C. Knappenberger [Michaels, Patrick J. & Knappenberger, Paul C.]

Typically, a doubling of the air ’s CO2 content above present-day concentrations raises the productivity of most herbaceous plants by about one-third; this positive response occurs in plants that utilize ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 22,2020 )
The Climate Casino by William D. Nordhaus
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:William D. Nordhaus

18 CLIMATE POLICY BY BALANCING COSTS AND BENEFITS Chapter 17 concluded that a sensible target for climate-change policy would require balancing abatement costs and climate damages. This approach is often ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 22,2020 )
Oceana by Ted Danson & Michael D'Orso
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Ted Danson & Michael D'Orso [Danson, Ted]

RADIOLARIA collected by HMS Challenger But no human had seen these species alive, in their native habitats. Most of the specimens pulled up by the Challenger’ s crew were dead ...
( Category: Marine Life March 21,2020 )
Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont by Robert Bilott
epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Robert Bilott [Bilott, Robert]

20 HAIL MARY Fall 2002 Cincinnati, Ohio It had taken more than a year, multiple court-imposed deadlines—most of them missed—and my constant pressure for more documents until a threat of ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 21,2020 )
Green and Prosperous Land by Dieter Helm
epub |eng | 2019-02-03 | Author:Dieter Helm [Dieter Helm]

The new green spaces Part of this return of nature to our towns and cities is about public spaces and public initiatives. But much of the wildlife potential is in ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 21,2020 )
The Environmental Policy Paradox by Zachary A. Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Zachary A. Smith

Development of Nuclear Power The development of nuclear power was thought by many to be the panacea for solving the energy crisis. Nuclear power started with the development and use ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 19,2020 )
The Ethics of Waste by Gay Hawkins
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Gay Hawkins

NOTES A version of this essay was published as “Shit in Public” in Australian Humanities Review, April 2004, at www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-April-2004/hawkins.html. 1 Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics (New York: Zone Books, ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 19,2020 )
The Invisible Killer by Gary Fuller
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Gary Fuller

Chapter 11 Wood-burning—the most natural way to heat my home? Beneath the radar, an old problem returned to Europe in the twenty-first century. Gone are home fireplaces fueled by coal. ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 17,2020 )
Living Through the End of Nature by Paul Wapner
epub |eng | 2010-03-16 | Author:Paul Wapner [Wapner, Paul Kevin]

‘‘Water’s Freedom,’’ Niagara Falls, New York 6 The Nature of Wilderness In human culture is the preservation of wildness. —Wendell Berry Wilderness has long been dear to American environmentalism, and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 17,2020 )
Science as a Contact Sport by Stephen H. Schneider
epub |eng | 2009-03-16 | Author:Stephen H. Schneider

Wall Street Journal essay is especially disturbing because it steps over the boundary from disagreeing with the science to attacking the honesty and integrity of a particular scientist, namely yourself. ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 17,2020 )
Overfishing (What Everyone Needs To Know®) by Hilborn Ray
epub |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Hilborn, Ray [Hilborn, Ray]

( Category: Environmental Policy March 17,2020 )
Fire Country by Victor Steffensen
epub |eng | 2020-01-28 | Author:Victor Steffensen

Chapter 15 Go ahead Meanwhile back on Awu-Laya country, the national parks rangers seemed to leave us alone for a little while. This allowed us to get back to the ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian March 16,2020 )
Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate by Laura Lengnick
epub | | | Author:Laura Lengnick [Lengnick, Laura]

Jim Koan, Almar Farm and Orchards, Flushing, Michigan Jim Koan has been growing apples at Almar Farm and Orchards in eastern Michigan near Flushing for more than forty years. Although ...
( Category: Canadian March 16,2020 )
The Dreamt Land by Mark Arax
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Mark Arax

* * * — In the winter of 1935, Edward Hyatt, the state engineer who had authored a report titled “Water Is the Life Blood of California,” sat in front ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 15,2020 )
What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming by Per Espen Stoknes
epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Per Espen Stoknes

The Well-Being Narrative Martin Luther King had a choice when standing in front of the crowd gathered before him at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. As Futerra, a sustainability consultancy, ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 14,2020 )

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