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Today’s headlines and recent events reflect the seriousness of climate change. Heat waves, droughts, and flooding are causing deaths among vulnerable populations, destroying livelihoods, and driving people from their homes. Rigorous in its science and insightful in its message, this atlas examines the possible impact of climate change on our ability to feed the world’s people, avoid water shortages, conserve biodiversity, improve health, and preserve cities and cult… More >>
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In 1989 Ian Lowe published Living in the Greenhouse, one of the first books to be published in Australia on the greenhouse effect. Since then, the signs of global warming have become even more clear and more worrying to the international community, as demonstrated by the Kyoto Protocol. In Australia and around the world the impact of climate change on weather patterns is already being noticed in dramatic and frightening ways. In this new book, Professor Lowe brings… More >>
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The effects of Global Warming on the environment and for human life are varied while some effects of recent climate change may already be occurring. Students will understand how Global Warming differs from natural climate change and how the evolutions of human societies have depended on a steady climate. We also look at rising sea levels, glacier retreat, and altered patterns of agriculture which are cited as direct consequences of Global Warming. As well, regional … More >>