Experimenting On A Small Planet

Author : William W. Hay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319274041

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Experimenting on a Small Planet by William W. Hay Pdf

This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works. He explores how humans are unintentionally conducting a grand uncontrolled experiment which is leading to unanticipated changes. We follow the twisting path of seemingly unrelated discoveries in physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and even mathematics to learn how they led to our present knowledge of how our planet works. He explains why the weather is becoming increasingly chaotic as our planet warms at a rate far faster than at any time in its geologic past. He speculates on possible future outcomes, and suggests that nature itself may make some unexpected course corrections. Although the book is written for the layman with little knowledge of science or mathematics, it includes information from many diverse fields to provide even those actively working in the field of climatology with a broader view of this developing drama. Experimenting on a Small Planet is a must read for anyone having more than a casual interest in global warming and climate change - one of the most important and challenging issues of our time. This new edition includes actual data from climate science into 2014. Numerous powerpoint slides allow lecturers and teachers to more effectively use the book as a basis for climate change education.

Author : William W. Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030763404

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Experimenting on a Small Planet by William W. Hay Pdf

This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works. He explores how humans are unintentionally conducting a grand uncontrolled experiment which is leading to unanticipated changes. We follow the twisting path of seemingly unrelated discoveries in physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and even mathematics to learn how they led to our present knowledge of how our planet works. He explains why the weather is becoming increasingly chaotic as our planet warms at a rate far faster than at any time in its geologic past. He speculates on possible future outcomes, and suggests that nature itself may make some unexpected course corrections. Although the book is written for the layman with little knowledge of science or mathematics, it includes information from many diverse fields to provide even those actively working in the field of climatology with a broader view of this developing drama. Experimenting on a Small Planet is a must read for anyone having more than a casual interest in global warming and climate change - one of the most important and challenging issues of our time. This new edition includes actual data from climate science into 2021. Numerous Powerpoint slides can be downloaded to allow lecturers and teachers to more effectively use the book as a basis for climate change education.

Author : William W. Hay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 999 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642285608

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Experimenting on a Small Planet by William W. Hay Pdf

This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works. He explores how humans are unintentionally conducting a grand uncontrolled experiment which is leading to unanticipated changes. We follow the twisting path of seemingly unrelated discoveries in physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and even mathematics to learn how they led to our present knowledge of how our planet works. He explains why the weather is becoming increasingly chaotic as our planet warms at a rate far faster than at any time in its geologic past. He speculates on possible future outcomes, and suggests that nature itself may make some unexpected course corrections. Although the book is written for the layman with little knowledge of science or mathematics, it includes information from many diverse fields to provide even those actively working in the field of climatology with a broader view of this developing drama. Experimenting on a Small Planet is a must read for anyone having more than a casual interest in global warming and climate change - one of the most important and challenging issues of our time.

Author : Barbara Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134045662

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Progress for a Small Planet by Barbara Ward Pdf

Three topics dominate discussions of the global environment: pollution; the consequences of the affluent running ever faster through finite resources; and the growing tensions between rich and poor as a third of humanity continues to live and die in desperate poverty. In this exceptional book Barbara Ward (co-author with Rene Dubos of the bestselling Only One Earth) refused to see these processes as inevitable. It describes new technologies for recycling waste, for energy, forgetting more or less linking them to ordinary people's working lives. It also suggests a strategy for meeting the basic needs of the disadvantaged, and shows how the vast inequalities between countries can be reduced. This perceptive survey of policies outlines a planetary bargain between the world's nations that would guarantee individual freedom from poverty and keep our shared biosphere in good working order. Originally published in 1988

Author : Cleveland Joahll Sai
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465328144

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The Whispering Archangel by Cleveland Joahll Sai Pdf

From author Cleveland Joahll Sai comes an intriguingly new genre that young and old readers alike will surely find fascinating and inspiring. In this self-help fiction, tales are more than stories for mere entertainment. The engaging stories, controversial dialogues, mystical anecdotes, and vivid otherworldly experiences serve a point. Though conveyed in fictional accounts, the serious intent of The Whispering Archangel is to inspire introspection and new vision. This intent permeates every word. The book presents a unique view of how we got to where we are and assumes that we can change where we say we are going. This absorbing book presents exchanges and thoughts about existence that are altogether unique. It supposes that ultimate truth is not so clearly defined. The individuals in the book have different stories and come from different worlds. In their quest for illumination they are lead to conclusions, personal truths and understandings which even contradict. Through them the reader may find that universal truth is found along the path of personal understanding. Through the tales in The Whispering Archangel, a story of ascension, as pursued humanity, is told. This book suggests that a profound examination of all that is within and all that surrounds humankind must occur in order for ascension to take place. It demands that humanity awaken, become more consciously aware of the Life surrounding it, and ascend.

Author : Lutz Schmadel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540002383

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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names by Lutz Schmadel Pdf

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Fifth Edition, is the official reference for the field of the IAU, which serves as the internationally recognised authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies and any surface features on them. The accelerating rate of the discovery of minor planets has not only made a new edition of this established compendium necessary but has also significantly altered its scope: this thoroughly revised edition concentrates on the approximately 10,000 minor planets that carry a name. It provides authoritative information about the basis for all names of minor planets. In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, this collection provides a most interesting historical insight into the work of those astronomers who over two centuries vested their affinities in a rich and colorful variety of ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to more prosaic constructions. The fifth edition serves as the primary reference, with plans for complementary booklets with newly named bodies to be issued every three years.

Author : Jens Elze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501385506

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Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics by Jens Elze Pdf

Realism seems to be everywhere, both as a trending critical term and as a revitalized aesthetic practice. This volume brings together for the first time three aspects that are pertinent for a proper understanding of realism: its 19th-century aesthetics committed to making reality into an object of serious art; the experiments with and against realism by 20th-century modernist, postmodernist, or magical realist writing; and the politics of realism, especially its ambitions to map the complex realities produced by global capitalism and climate catastrophe. This juxtaposition of aesthetics, experiments, and politics unsettles the entrenched opposition between realism and experimental literature that tends to ignore the fact that realism, by virtue of its commitment to a changing material and social world, cannot be but continuously experimenting. The innovative chapters of this book address some of the pressing questions of literary and cultural studies today, like the complex relation between historical materialism and new materialisms, between science and art, or the different aesthetic and political affordances of making systemic analyses against depicting the specificity of the local. Some of the chapters deal with classically realist authors, such as George Eliot, Émile Zola, and Joseph Conrad, to gauge the aesthetic radicalism of their diverse realist projects. Others investigate the experimental engagements with realism by authors such as B.S. Johnson, J.M. Coetzee, or Rachel Cusk. Yet others, analyze the politics of realism found in contemporary anglophone novels by writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, David Mitchell, or Rohinton Mistry. The readings assembled here are a testament to the diversity of literary realism(s) from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and to the ongoing controversies surrounding definitions and deployments of “realism.”

Author : Lutz D. Schmadel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1452 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642297182

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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names by Lutz D. Schmadel Pdf

The quantity of numbered minor planets has now well exceeded a quarter million. The new sixth edition of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, which is the IAU’s official reference work for the field, now covers more than 17,000 named minor planets. In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names provides authoritative information on the basis of the rich and colorful variety of ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to artists, from scientists to Nobel laureates, from historical or political figures to ordinary women and men, from mountains to buildings, as well as a variety of compound terms and curiosities. This sixth edition of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names has grown by more than 7,000 entries compared to the fifth edition and by more than 2,000 compared to the fifth edition, including its two addenda published in 2006 and 2009. In addition, there are many corrections, revisions and updates to the entries published in earlier editions. This work is an abundant source of information for anyone interested in minor planets and who enjoys reading about the people and things minor planets commemorate.

Author : Royal Astronomical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10625721

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[Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society / Letters ] ; Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters [Elektronische Ressource] by Royal Astronomical Society Pdf

Author : Royal Astronomical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014488472

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society Pdf

Portfolio of 8 charts accompanies v. 83.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007383559

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The Sirian Experiments (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 3) by Doris Lessing Pdf

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the third instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : hinkler
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781743634585

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365 Incredible Science Experiments by Anonim Pdf

Discover the secrets of science through hundreds of experiments that will challenge and entertain you. You will be amazed at how much you learn while having so much fun! Do you know how to make your own explosive volcano? Or how rainbows are made? Explore the world of Science and learn about Earth and the solar system.

Author : Thomas Turner Tate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Physics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097017065

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An Elementary Course of Natural and Experimental Philosophy by Thomas Turner Tate Pdf

Author : Sara Lynn Latta
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781496650665

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All About Earth by Sara Lynn Latta Pdf

Science-based, clear instructions guide readers through experiments pertaining to Earth, including its rotation in space, seasons, gravity, and matter. An engaging way to support the Next Generation Science Standards. Experiments are simple, accessible, and something that could be used at a science fair, in the classroom, or at home. Exploring the planet has never been simpler.

Author : Elizabeth Snoke Harris
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1600593224

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Save the Earth Science Experiments by Elizabeth Snoke Harris Pdf

Going green is a hot topic...and a hot science fair project. Author and scientist Elizabeth Snoke Harris knows what impresses, and she provides plenty of winning ideas, along with step-by-step guidance to insure that the end result is a success. Show how to harness energy with windmills, make a biogas generator, and create alternative fuels. Demonstrate green power with recycled paper, solar building, and compact fluorescent light bulbs. Test the ozone, be a "garbage detective,” and discuss how to reverse global warming. The importance of what children learn will go even beyond the science fair: they’ll have the knowledge to understand what’s happening to Planet Earth...and the desire to do something eco-friendly every day.