The Impact of Global Warming

The Resilient Earth: Science, Global Warming and the Fate of Humanity

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A million years after the birth of our sun, the violent explosion of a nearby supernova nearly ended life on Earth before it began. Over the next four and a half billion years, forces of nature shaped our planet and the life it harbored. Barely surviving the traumatic birth of the Moon, buffeted by supernovae, and bombarded by asteroids, the resilient Earth endured. And despite planet-freezing ice ages, devastating mass extinctions, and ever changing climate, life n… More >>

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Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming

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Greenhouse is the illuminating history behind a scientific idea that fills’s today’s headlines. Christianson, author of Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae, blends the research of a scholar with a novelist’s storytelling skill. As the full range of its elements come into focus, global warming becomes both a memorable human drama and an integral part of our planet’s history. An essential book for anyone interested in the history of science and the very natur… More >>

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Health and Climate Change: Modelling the Impacts of Global Warming and Ozone Depletion

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‘Understanding how complex ecological and climatic change can influence human health is the new challenge before us. The book confronts these multidimensional risk assessments head-on and will catalyse the important interdisciplinary and integrated approach that is the new paradigm now required for environmental and public health research’ – Dr Jonathan Patz, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. ‘This book provides a sturdy foundation for thinking abou… More >>

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