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"Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly...
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"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
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This work explains climate change, its implications for the future, and what we can, and cannot, do to avoid further change. It summarizes everything we know about the science of climate change, explains what is likely to happen to the climate in the future, and lays out, in practical terms, what we can do to avoid further shifts. In sixty entries, Climate Central tackles basic questions such as: Is climate ever "normal"? ; Why and how do fossil-fuel...
4) The story of more: how we got to climate change and where to go from here : adapted for young adults
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A young adult adaptation of Hope Jahren's nonfiction work, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here"--
Jahren, a geobiologist, has written an impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Our enterprising spirit has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon-- but that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels....
6) Carbon tax
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Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Taxing carbon emissions, which contribute to global warming, is one method governments are using to help decrease or control climate change. This informative title looks at the costs and benefits of this sometimes controversial tax and how different jurisdictions are implementing them."--
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Report / 110th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 110-915
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U.S. G.P.O
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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13) Metrics for expressing greenhouse gas emissions: carbon equivalents and carbon dioxide equivalents
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United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Transportation and Air Quality
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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In focus volume IF10904
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Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2019-
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English
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15) Opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through materials and land management practices
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Soild Waste and Emergency Response
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
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English
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The final Report of Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, considering the scientific assessment of climate change and confronting issues such as global warming, greenhouse gases, the greenhouse effect, sea level changes and the forcing of climate.
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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"Global Change and Local Places explores the ways people and biota contribute to climate change in four localities of the United States. The volume summarizes the findings of the Global Change and Local Places (GCLP) project initiated by the Association of American Geographers (AAG) to develop methods to determine how localities contribute to global change; how those contributions change over time; what forces drive such changes; what controls local...