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Betting the farm on a drought : stories from the front lines of climate change Cover Image

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Betting the farm on a drought : stories from the front lines of climate change

Summary: "This book takes a survey of climate change today: it lays out for the everyman what is happening, why it's happening, and what some people are doing about it. But rather than get mired in polemics or scientific jargon, as so many other books have done, Tempest tackles the issue through the people who are dealing with it--scientists, yes, but also fishermen and farmers who, even if they're not ready to concede global warming is a manmade problem, are adapting to a world of stronger storms and more intense droughts in creative ways. By telling such human stories, McGraw hopes to move readers beyond partisan divisions and into the much-needed common ground. Otherwise, as he says, "if the melting ice caps and rising oceans don't get us, we're all going to drown in the viscera of each other's gored oxen.""--

Record details

ISBN: 0292756615
ISBN: 9780292756618
ISBN: 1477303820
ISBN: 9781477303825
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Sundance -- Comfortable in our ignorance -- Kindergarten in a fallout shelter -- Preaching to the choir -- Running from a grizzly in your slippers -- The other white meat -- Flying by wire -- Notes from the ivory clock tower -- "I never met a liberal before" -- The year the creeks stopped freezing -- "It's what I do" -- Penguins tumbling off an ice sheet.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.