Field Notes from a Catastrophe Man, Nature, and Climate Change

Name: Field Notes from a Catastrophe Man, Nature, and Climate Change
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ISBN: 9781596911253

ISBN-10: 1596911255

ISBN-13: 9781596911253

Edition: 2006

Authors: Elizabeth Kolbert

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An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late nineteen-seventies that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous course, now is the moment to salvage our future. By the end of the century, the world will likely be hotter than it’s been in the last two million years, and the sweeping…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/7/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her series on global warming, The Climate of Man, won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine writing award and a National Academies communications award. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner. She has written several books including Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.