Down to the wire [electronic resource] : confronting climate collapse / David W. Orr.

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by Orr, David W., 1944-
Call Number 363.34 22
Publication Date 2009
Summary "The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives ... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions." So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. Orr describes how political negligence, an economy based on the insatiable consumption of trivial goods, and a disdain for the well-being of future generations have brought us to the tipping point that biologist Edward O. Wilson.
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The Maunder Minimum and the variable sun-earth connection [electronic resource] / Willie Wei-Hock Soon, Steven H. Yaskell.

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by Soon, Willie.
Call Number 523.74 22
Publication Date 2003
Summary This book takes an excursion through solar science, science history, and geoclimate with a husband and wife team who revealed some of our sun's most stubborn secrets. E. Walter and Annie S.D. Maunder's work helped in understanding our sun's chemical, electromagnetic and plasma properties. They knew the sun's sunspot migration patterns and its variable, climate-affecting, inactive and active states in short and long time frames. An inactive solar period starting in the mid-seventeenth century lasted approximately seventy years, one that E. Walter Maunder worked hard to make us understand: the Maunder Minimum of c 1620-1720 (which was posthumously named for him). With ongoing concern over global warming, and the continuing failure to identify root causes driving earth's climatic changes, the Maunders' story outlines how our cyclical sun can alter climate. The book goes on to view the sun-earth connection in terms of geomagnetic variation and climatic change; contemporary views on the sun's operating mechanisms are explored, and the effects these have on the earth over long and short time scales are pondered. If not a call to widen earth's climate research to include the sun, this book strives to illustrate how solar causes and effects can influence earth's climate in ways we must understand in order to enhance solar system research and our well-being.
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Down to the wire [electronic resource] : confronting climate collapse / David W. Orr.

The Maunder Minimum and the variable sun-earth connection [electronic resource] / Willie Wei-Hock Soon, Steven H. Yaskell.