1 edition of A world without ice found in the catalog.
A world without ice
H. N. Pollack
Published
2010
by Avery in New York
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Written in English
Edition Notes
Statement | Henry Pollack, Ph.D. |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | GB2405 .P55 2010 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | p. cm. |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL25041411M |
ISBN 10 | 9781583334072 |
LC Control Number | 2010025849 |
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A World Without Ice book. Read 43 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize offers a clear-eyed e /5. A World Without Ice is certainly an important and informative book, as the author makes the case that without immediate and substantial action into curtailing our combustion of coal, natural gas, and petroleum fuels, we will undoubtedly melt all the polar ice and glaciers in the world this by: A World Without Ice is a call to arms.
Debates about which mitigation strategies might give us the best chances of reducing our emissions miss the point, Pollack : Ian Sample. Bats can get coronavirus without getting sick, and here’s why. The Plant-based meat industry is booming in the pandemic. A world without ice book here’s how the world would look like without ice.
A World Without Ice () is about our planet, its climate, its human residents – and ice. Ice has always been a major player in Earth’s climate. These blinks explain why we may soon see a world without ice, why that would a have dramatic consequences for Earth and.
Dahr Jamail on his book "The End Of Ice" and the significance of the many studies showing glaciers and sea ice around the world are melting at an. Book Review: A World Without Ice The Earth is warming at an alarming A world without ice book, and one of the principal dangers associated with global warming is the loss of multi-year ice in the polar regions.
Climate change expert Dr. Henry Pollack’s book, A World Without Ice, presents a clear picture of what the loss of polar ice will mean for our planet.
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The collaboration takes its inspiration from Henry Pollack’s book A World Without Ice. An original composition by Stephen Rush, with musical patterns and structure derived from a century of climate data, anchors the installation. An innovative ice-melt actuated instrument created by Michael Gould, comprising suspended ice domes melting drip.
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday/5.
What would a world without books evolve into. Maybe it would be like in George Orwell’s where people live in a repressive world.
Or our world would be like in Aldous Huxley’s A brave new world where people are instantly contented with everything. Both. A World Without Ice is a fascinating, scary, but informative portrait of Earth's delicate climate balance and the thresholds we are staring across." -Jon Turk, author of The Raven's Gift "The work of Dr.
Pollack and the IPCC in bringing attention to the very serious dangers posed by climate change has been justly praised. This book shows how /5(27). The information about A World Without You shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks.
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A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack, Ph.D. paints a compelling portrait of the delicate balance between ice and climate, and why its rapid disappearance portends serious consequences in. Henry Pollack is emeritus professor of geophysics at the University of Michigan.
Pollack received his A.B. from Cornell University in and Ph.D in from the University of is also an advisor to the National Science Foundation and an author (along with other people) of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Authority control: BNF: cbg (data), ISNI:.
The World Without Us is a non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books. It is a book-length expansion of Weisman's own February Discover article "Earth Without People".
Written largely as a thought experiment, it Author: Alan Weisman. Henry Pollack is a venerable scientist with a thousand stories to share. He’s been doing ice science for over 40 years.
He’s also been explaining what he does, and the implications of what he and his colleagues have learned, for nearly as long. All of that experience makes A World Without Ice a great introduction to climate science.
About A World Without Ice. THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT ICE AND PEOPLE — the role ice has played in the development of Earth’s landscape, climate, and human civilization, and the reciprocal impact of people on the planet’s ice.
Geophysicist Henry Pollack paints a compelling portrait of the delicate geological balance between ice and climate, and why its rapid disappearance portends. Dr Henry Pollack, the author of A World Without Ice, is a geophysicist and an IPCC author. According to Al Gore, in the foreword, he is also “a scientist with the rare ability to engage ordinary people and to translate scientific ideas into everyday terms that are easy to understand”.
Without books, life today would be exponentially more primitive. Books have allowed for an increase in literacy, the spread of knowledge, and the phenomenon of collective learning. Majority of people would still be illiterate if it were not for bo. As we rush headlong into a digital tomorrow, this video asks what would a world without books look like.
As National Geographic showed us insea levels would rise by feet if all the land ice on the planet were to melt.
This would dramatically reshape the .