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Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods
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last updated Apr 03, 2017 07:27PM
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This book is now almost ten years old. As such, it contains some info and views which are now dated, and about which there is now much more clarity.
For example, the chapter on hurricanes is rather tentative about whether larger, more powerful storms will be a result of global warming going forward.
It's become a commonplace for people (including scientists) to say that any given storm, rainfall, drought - whatever- can be said to be "caused" by climate change. This is changing a bit i ...more
This book is now almost ten years old. As such, it contains some info and views which are now dated, and about which there is now much more clarity.
For example, the chapter on hurricanes is rather tentative about whether larger, more powerful storms will be a result of global warming going forward.
It's become a commonplace for people (including scientists) to say that any given storm, rainfall, drought - whatever- can be said to be "caused" by climate change. This is changing a bit i ...more
Sep 27, 2011
Rob
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Alright so I am interested in climate change. In part it is because I am a concerned citizen but there is a touch of the apocalypse porn thing going on.
This book falls very much into the science category. The book is written by the eminent science journalist Fred Pierce so it is accessible to the averagely intelligent reader. No science degree is needed but there is no talking down either.
Pierce is not interested in the bland IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)consensus. That conse ...more
This book falls very much into the science category. The book is written by the eminent science journalist Fred Pierce so it is accessible to the averagely intelligent reader. No science degree is needed but there is no talking down either.
Pierce is not interested in the bland IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)consensus. That conse ...more
Aug 20, 2013
Bill
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Riku Sayuj
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Jason Pickels
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