Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change

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FEELING THE HEAT Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Edited by Jim ...

Published in 2004 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 http://www.routledge-ny.com Published in Great Britain by ...

Preface vii Introduction 1 PARTONE: HUMANIMPACTS China: The Cost of Coal 11 MARKHERTSGAARD Europe: Planning Ahead 25 COLINWOODA ...

PARTTWO: ECOSYTEMS INTROUBLE Alaska and the Western Arctic: The Ice Retreats 95 KIERANMULVANEY The California Coast: Marine Mig ...

The reality of catastrophic climate change does not seem to be getting through to people, and it is not hard to understand why. ...

It is no great mystery what causes global warming: Carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, cars, and trucks; cook ...

in this book is reported from the field, through interviews not only with scientists but also with ordinary working people whose ...

January 9, 2003: Dr. Andrew Derocher of the University of Alberta, Canada, says the polar bear could be driven to extinction by ...

April 9, 2003: The Great Lakes region, which contains the world’s largest source of freshwater, could face baking heat, drought ...

years) began to crack in 2000. In 2003, it broke in two, draining a trapped freshwater lake into the Arctic Ocean. Scientists at ...

In 1995, more than two thousand scientists from one hundred coun- tries reported to the United Nations that our burning of oil, ...

atmospheric carbon levels later in this century. They followed that with another study, published in November 2002 in the journa ...

models and temperature data. Add the unceasing bombardment of extreme weather events wreaking havoc all over the world. Take 200 ...

an ad on the op-ed page of the New York Times: “Some claim that humans are causing global warming, and they point to storms or f ...

If the press really wanted to bring home the reality of climate change to viewers and readers, it would begin by making the conn ...

Climate change–induced damage to the Gulf Stream was a hot Davos topic in 2003. Some of the world’s largest oil and auto compani ...

Coalition (GCC) waged a campaign against mainstream science. But its corporate membership has hemorrhaged. At the end of 2000, t ...