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Forecast : the consequences of climate change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley
- Title
- Forecast : the consequences of climate change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley / Stephan Faris.
- Author
- Faris, Stephan.
- Publication
- New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- 242 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Climate change has already been altering lives on our planet for a generation: Forecast showd, through Stephan Faris's vivid on-theground reporting, that there are unanticipated and surprising affects - some catastrophic and some positive - right around the corner." "Told through the narratives of current, past, and future events, the result of astonishingly wide travel and reporting, Forecast is a powerful, gracefully written, eye-opening account of this most urgent issue and how it has altered and will alter our World."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-232) and index.
- Contents
- 1. "Things Will Break Loose from the Hands of the Wise Men": Darfur, Scarcity, and Conflict -- 2. "We're the Far Country": The Gulf Coast, Warming Waters, and the Flight from Paradise -- 3. "A Spectacular Bit of Growth as Times Get Hard": Europe, Migration, and Political Backlash -- 4. "At aNew Frontier": Brazil, Unsettled Ecosystems, and Disease -- 5. "Beautiful Country": The West Coast, Hotter Summers, and the Grape Harvest -- 6. "Everything Is Late in Churchill": The Arctic, Melting Ice, and the New Land Grab -- 7. "An Elemental Kind of Existential Threat": South Asia, Disappearing Glaciers, and Regional Catastrophe.
- ISBN
- 0805087796
- 9780805087796
- LCCN
- 2008028558
- 40016273528
- OCLC
- 233030078
- ocn233030078
- SCSB-5450274
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries