"President Bush and his Administration have risen to the global warming challenge with responses ranging from obfuscation to pretense to outright denial...I'd like to issue each and every one of them a challenge. Come with me--see what I have seen--and try to understand what global warming really means for us and for our children. Leave Washington and travel to the places I have visited..."--From the Preface
A glacier disappears high in the Peruvian Andes. Floodwaters surge across the English countryside. Ten thousand Pacific Islanders begin to evacuate their homeland. A dust storm...
"President Bush and his Administration have risen to the global warming challenge with responses ranging from obfuscation to pretense to outright d...
How to calculate your carbon footprint and practical tips on how to reduce it.
Written by Mark Lynas, one of Britain's most respected commentators on environmental issues, The Carbon Calculator shows you how to reduce your carbon footprint and help protect the environment.
- Measuring your carbon footprint, from food shopping, to work, holidays, and clothes. The handy carbon calculator takes you through each aspect of everyday living, helping you to assess the impact you are having on the environment.
- How do you measure up? Allows you to measure your carbon footprint...
How to calculate your carbon footprint and practical tips on how to reduce it.
Written by Mark Lynas, one of Britain's most respected comment...
By making use of the latest in world energy statistics, author Mark Lynas shows that with wind and solar still at only about one percent of global primary energy, looking to renewable energy as a solution to deliver all the world s power is a dangerously delusional concept. Moreover, with no possibility reducing the world s energy usage when the developing world is fast extricating itself from poverty and adding the equivalent of a new Brazil to the global electricity consumption each year additional solutions are needed. This book then details how the antinuclear movement of the 1970s and...
By making use of the latest in world energy statistics, author Mark Lynas shows that with wind and solar still at only about one percent of global pri...
