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Author
Series
Carbon ideologies volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The second volume in a timely series about climate change and energy generation draws on first-person interviews to reveal the real-world reasons behind the continuance of environmentally harmful coal mining, fracking, and natural gas production.
Series
SCOPE report volume 29
Publisher
Published on behalf of the Scientific Committee on the Problems of the Environment of the International Council of Scientific Unions by Wiley
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""CO₂ is plant food" is a longtime conservative talking point. It's a tricky one because it's not exactly a lie. CO₂ is plant food. But it's more complicated than that. In this book, prominent plant biologist and climate scientist Lewis Ziska explains the complex, mixed results we get when CO₂ in the atmosphere increases. Many crop plants, like rices that much of the world depends on as a staple food, do grow more abundantly under these conditions,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"No Immediate Danger, the first volume of Carbon Ideologies, [begins] by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change, from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction, economic demand for electric power, and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort. Turning to nuclear power first, Vollmann then recounts multiple visits that he made at significant personal risk over the...
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 112-975
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English