Climatology
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Joelle Gergis [Gergis, Joelle]

27 NATURAL VARIABILITY VERSUS HUMAN INFLUENCE Before the Industrial Revolution kicked off around 1750, the Earth’s climate was almost purely operating under natural conditions. Because the human population was still ...
( Category: Weather January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Benjamin R. Barber [Barber, Benjamin R.]

12 City Sovereignty and the Need for Urban Networks The Compact of Mayors launched at the United Nations Climate Summit in 2014 engaged “the world’s largest coalition of city leaders ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-20 | Author:Jenna Butler [Jenna Butler]

2 I wake into thrumming noise, the porthole cover clanging, Maggie tangled in blankets in the top berth. Our cabin a welter of night breath and damp wool. Antigua is ...
( Category: Ecology January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-04-22 | Author:Brett Favaro

PURCHASE COST The first challenge with current EVs is the initial cost of buying them. EVs targeted at the mass market are more expensive than an “equivalent” ICE car. For ...
( Category: Weather January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Serreze, Mark C. [Serreze, Mark C.]

EPIPHANY The new century dawned. Arctic changes became ever more obvious and now clearly included the Greenland ice sheet, ice caps, and glaciers. Even the landscape was changing, with areas ...
( Category: Environmental Science January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-06-02 | Author:Geoffrey Parker [Parker, Geoffrey]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Americas, Africa and Australia1 Most of the surviving human and natural archives from the mid-seventeenth century relate to Europe and Asia. Despite the immense size of the ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Tim Flannery

Oolacunta! 2004 I’M WRITING THESE words in 2003, on my way home from London where I’ve been studying some of Australia’s most interesting mammals. It’s been a sad pilgrimage, but ...
( Category: Conservation January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Rachel Ignotofsky

BIGGEST BENEFITS The Cape of Africa has been named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its amazing biodiversity. The system of ocean currents brings plentiful marine life to ...
( Category: Climatology January 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Brian Fagan

8 “MORE LIKE WINTER THAN SUMMER” When the land is inclosed, so as to admit of sowing turnips, clover, or other grass seeds, which have an improving and meliorating tendency, ...
( Category: Environmental Science December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-12 | Author:Michael T. Klare

RISING TEMPERATURES, BIGGER STORMS, AND GROWING PENTAGON INVOLVEMENT Ever since U.S. military and intelligence officials began pondering the impact of climate change on American national security, they have consistently assumed ...
( Category: Environmental Policy November 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Bjørn Lomborg [Lomborg, Bjørn]

( Category: Environmental Policy October 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-19 | Author:Ana Isla

8. Climate Change and Environmental Racism What Payments for Ecosystem Services Means for Peasants and Indigenous Peoples ana isla The fifth assessment report (ar5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
( Category: Movements & Periods October 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-15 | Author:Brendan Kelly [Kelly, Brendan]

Experiencing Metal To better understand Metal, try the following exercise of sitting quietly with your eyes closed. In a quiet place, make yourself comfortable sitting on the ground with your ...
( Category: Infectious Disease October 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Andrew S. Lewis

KATE, MAE, AND I had been sitting on the porch for a while when Mike finally came outside, freshly cleaned. He wore a pair of jeans that were too big—they ...
( Category: Natural Disasters October 3,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

V. MORE LIFE Finite Resources Returning from work one afternoon, my grandfather was stopped on the outskirts of his Polish village by a friend, who told him that everyone had ...
( Category: Environmental Policy September 25,2019 )