e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Choice Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Rich, Nathaniel, 1980-
Subjects
Global warming -- History.
Global environmental change -- History.
Carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade -- History.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Rich, Nathaniel, 1980-
by title:
Losing Earth : a rec...
by call number:
363.73874 R499L
Search the Web
Rich, Nathaniel, 1980-
Global warming -- History.
Global environmental change -- History.
Carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade -- History.
MARC Display
Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.
by
Rich, Nathaniel, 1980-
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Call #:
363
.73874
R499L
Subjects
Global warming -- History.
Global environmental change -- History.
Carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade -- History.
ISBN:
9780374191337 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 206 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206).
Contents:
Introduction : the reckoning -- Part I. Shouts in the street : 1979-1982. The whole banana : spring 1979 -- Mirror worlds : spring 1979 -- Between clambake and chaos : July 1979 -- Enter Cassandra, raving : 1979-1980 -- A very aggressive defensive program : 1979-1980 -- Tiger on the road : October 1980 -- A deluge most unnatural : November 1980-September 1981 -- Heroes and villains : March 1982 -- The direction of an impending catastrophe : 1982 -- Part II. Bad science fiction : 1983-1988. Caution not panic : 1983-1984 -- The world of action : 1985 -- The ozone in October : fall 1985-summer 1986 -- Atmospheric scientist, New York, N.Y. : fall 1987-spring 1988 -- Part III. You will see things that you shall believe : 1988-1989. Nothing but bonfires : summer 1988 -- Signal weather : June 1988 -- Woodstock for climate change : June 1988-April 1989 -- Fragmented world : fall 1988 -- The great includer and the old engineer : spring 1989 -- Natural processes : May 1989 -- The White House effect : spring-fall 1989 -- Skunks at the garden party : November 1989 -- Afterword : glass-bottomed boats.
Summary:
"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"--
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
363.73874 R499L
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
363.73874 R499L
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
363.73874 R499L
Adult books
Shelving Cart
Add Copy to MyList
Sackville Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
363.73874 R499L
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.