Random House New Releases - Science - Global Warming & Climate Change

Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott

2013-09-10T00:30:00-05:00

Ten Billion
Written by Stephen Emmott

Trade Paperback, 176 pages | Vintage | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change | $12.00 | 978-0-345-80647-5 (0-345-80647-6)

A VINTAGE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

Just 10,000 years ago, there were only one million humans on Earth.
By 1800, just over two hundred years ago, there were one billion of us.
By 1960, there were three billion.

There are now over seven billion of us.

By 2050, there will be at least nine billion other people—and, sometime near the end of this century, there will be at least ten billion of us.

There is simply no known way to provide this many people with clothes, food, and fresh water. And any action we take to address these issues will turn up the thermostat on global warming.

Stephen Emmott has dedicated his career to researching the effects of humans on the Earth’s natural systems. This is his call to arms, an urgent plea to re-imagine the interconnected web of our global problems in a new light.

Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott

2013-09-10T00:30:00-05:00

Ten Billion
Written by Stephen Emmott

eBook, 128 pages | Vintage | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change | $9.99 | 978-0-345-80646-8 (0-345-80646-8)

The Whole Story of Climate by E. Kirsten Peters

2012-11-20T00:30:00-05:00

The Whole Story of Climate What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change
Written by E. Kirsten Peters

Hardcover, 290 pages | Prometheus Books | Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Science - Geology | $26.00 | 978-1-61614-672-6 (1-61614-672-9)

Accessible and engagingly written, this book is essential reading for anyone looking to understand one of our most important contemporary debates. In the publicity surrounding global warming, climate scientists are usually the experts consulted by the media. We rarely hear from geologists, who for almost two hundred years have been studying the history of Earth's dramatic and repeated climate revolutions, as revealed in the evidence of rocks and landscapes. This book, written by a geologist, describes the important contributions that geology has made to our understanding of climate change. What emerges is a much more complex and nuanced picture than is usually presented. While the average person often gets the impression that the Earth's climate would be essentially stable if it weren't for the deleterious effects of greenhouse gases, in fact the history of the earth over many millennia reveals a constantly changing climate. As the author explains, several long cold eras have been punctuated by shorter warm periods. The most recent of these warm spells, the one in which we are now living, started ten thousand years ago; based on previous patterns, we should be about due for the return of another frigid epoch. Some scientists even think that the warming of the planet caused by man-made greenhouse gasses tied to agriculture in the past few thousand years may have held off the next ice age. Though this may be possible, much remains uncertain. But what is clearly known is that major climate shifts can be appallingly rapid-occurring over as little as twenty or thirty years. One danger of dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is that they may increase the chance that this "climate switch" will be thrown, with catastrophic effects on worldwide agriculture. Besides her discussion of climate, the author includes chapters on how early naturalists pieced together the complicated geological history of Earth, and she teaches the reader how to interpret the evidence of rock formations and landscape patterns all around us.

The Whole Story of Climate by E. Kirsten Peters

2012-11-20T00:30:00-05:00

The Whole Story of Climate What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change
Written by E. Kirsten Peters

eBook | Prometheus Books | Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Science - Geology | $14.99 | 978-1-61614-673-3 (1-61614-673-7)

Fools Rule by William Marsden

2012-08-07T00:30:00-05:00

Fools Rule Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
Written by William Marsden

Trade Paperback, 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change | $17.95 | 978-0-307-39825-3 (0-307-39825-0)

From the National Business Book Award-winning author of Stupid to the Last Drop, a captivating polemic on the global failure to deal with climate change.

Kyoto, 1997. Montreal, 2005. Copenhagen, 2009. Cancun, 2010. In Fools Rule, Marsden illustrates how inefficient and short-sighted political negotiations have become despite mounting scientific evidence that immediate action is essential to curb the effects of climate change. International climate change summits are now widely monitored events, attended by state leaders and crowded with journalists; yet somehow they have never been less productive. Treaties and action plans are smothered by economic self-interest, diplomatic errors and every nation's hungry scramble for its share of the remaining atmospheric space.

Marsden takes us from inside the bungled negotiations at Copenhagen to the melting glaciers and untapped oil reserves of the Arctic; he shows us the paralyzing effect oil and gas companies have on green legal initiatives in the United States, and therefore on any international climate change treaty; and, with wit and penetrating insight, he asks the toughest question--will we be able to change before it's too late?

Finding Higher Ground by Amy Seidl

2012-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

Finding Higher Ground Adaptation in the Age of Warming
Written by Amy Seidl

Trade Paperback, 216 pages | Beacon Press | Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Science - Energy; Nature - Ecosystems & Habitats - General | $18.00 | 978-0-8070-8499-1 (0-8070-8499-9)

While much of the global warming conversation rightly focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, the reality is that even if we were to immediately cease emissions, we would still face climate change into the next millennium. In Finding Higher Ground, Amy Seidl takes the uniquely positive—yet realistic—position that humans and animals can adapt and persist despite these changes. Drawing on an emerging body of scientific research, Seidl brings us stories of adaptation from the natural world and from human communities. She offers examples of how plants, insects, birds, and mammals are already adapting both behaviorally and genetically. While some species will be unable to adapt to new conditions quickly enough to survive, Seidl argues that those that do can show us how to increase our own capacity for resilience if we work to change our collective behavior. In looking at climate change as an opportunity to establish new cultural norms, Seidl inspires readers to move beyond loss and offers a refreshing call to evolve.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins

2012-04-17T00:30:00-05:00

The Man Who Planted Trees Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet
Written by Jim Robbins

eBook, 240 pages | Spiegel & Grau | Nature - Trees; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Nature - Ecology | $12.99 | 978-1-58836-999-4 (1-58836-999-4)

The Man Who Planted Trees is the inspiring story of David Milarch’s quest to clone the biggest trees on the planet in order to save our forests and ecosystem—as well as a hopeful lesson about how each of us has the ability to make a difference.

“When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second best time? Today.”—Chinese proverb

Twenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman with a penchant for hard living, had a vision: angels came to tell him that the earth was in trouble. Its trees were dying, and without them, human life was in jeopardy. The solution, they told him, was to clone the champion trees of the world—the largest, the hardiest, the ones that had survived millennia and were most resilient to climate change—and create a kind of Noah’s ark of tree genetics. Without knowing if the message had any basis in science, or why he’d been chosen for this task, Milarch began his mission of cloning the world’s great trees. Many scientists and tree experts told him it couldn’t be done, but, twenty years later, his team has successfully cloned some of the world’s oldest trees—among them giant redwoods and sequoias. They have also grown seedlings from the oldest tree in the world, the bristlecone pine Methuselah.

When New York Times journalist Jim Robbins came upon Milarch’s story, he was fascinated but had his doubts. Yet over several years, listening to Milarch and talking to scientists, he came to realize that there is so much we do not yet know about trees: how they die, how they communicate, the myriad crucial ways they filter water and air and otherwise support life on Earth. It became clear that as the planet changes, trees and forest are essential to assuring its survival.

Praise for The Man Who Planted Trees

“Absorbing, eloquent and loving . . . While Robbins’s tone is urgent, it doesn’t compromise his crystal-clear science. . . . Even the smallest details here are fascinating.”—The New York Times Book Review

“This is a story of miracles and obsession and love and survival. Told with Jim Robbins’s signature clarity and eye for telling detail, The Man Who Planted Trees is also the most hopeful book I’ve read in years. I kept thinking of the end of Saint Francis’s wonderful prayer, ‘And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in the world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.’ ”—Alexandra Fuller, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

“Scientists can be confined by their own thinking—they know what they know. It’s amazing for one layman to come up with the idea of saving champion trees as a meaningful way to address the issues of biodiversity and climate change. This could be a grassroots solution to a global problem. A few million people selecting and planting the right trees for the right places could really make a difference.”—Ramakrishna Nemani, earth scientist

“This provocative and stimulating look at an emerging aspect of environmental study should serve as a clarion call to those concerned with the fate of the world’s forests as well as of the stately shade trees in their own backyards.”—Booklist

This book was printed in the United States of America on Rolland Enviro™ 100 Book, which is manufactured using FSC-certified 100% postconsumer fiber and meets permanent paper standards.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins

2012-04-17T00:30:00-05:00

The Man Who Planted Trees Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet
Written by Jim Robbins

Hardcover, 240 pages | Spiegel & Grau | Nature - Trees; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Nature - Ecology | $25.00 | 978-1-4000-6906-4 (1-4000-6906-8)

Fools Rule by William Marsden

2011-10-25T00:30:00-05:00

Fools Rule Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
Written by William Marsden

Hardcover, 336 pages | Knopf Canada | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change | $25.99 | 978-0-307-39824-6 (0-307-39824-2)

This eloquent, rage-inciting polemic about the global failure to deal with climate change will appeal to readers of Tim Flannery, George Monbiot and Bill McKibben - and anyone concerned with the economic and environmental future of our planet.

Kyoto, 1997. Montreal, 2005. Copenhagen, 2009. Cancun, 2010. In Fools Rule, Marsden illustrates how inefficient and short-sighted political negotiations have become despite mounting scientific evidence that immediate action is essential to curb the effects of climate change. International climate change summits are now widely monitored events, attended by state leaders and crowded with journalists; yet somehow they have never been less productive. Treaties and action plans are smothered by economic self-interest, diplomatic errors and every nation's hungry scramble for its share of the remaining atmospheric space. Marsden takes us from inside the bungled negotiations at Copenhagen to the melting glaciers and untapped oil reserves of the Arctic; he shows us the paralyzing effect oil and gas companies have on green legal initiatives in the United States, and therefore on any international climate change treaty; and, with wit and penetrating insight, he asks the toughest question - will we be able to change before it's too late?

Fools Rule by William Marsden

2011-10-25T00:30:00-05:00

Fools Rule Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
Written by William Marsden

eBook | Knopf Canada | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change | $13.99 | 978-0-307-36673-3 (0-307-36673-1)

Finding Higher Ground by Amy Seidl

2011-06-07T00:30:00-05:00

Finding Higher Ground Adaptation in the Age of Warming
Written by Amy Seidl

Hardcover, 208 pages | Beacon Press | Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Nature - Ecology; Science - Environmental Science | $24.95 | 978-0-8070-8598-1 (0-8070-8598-7)

Finding Higher Ground by Amy Seidl

2011-06-07T00:30:00-05:00

Finding Higher Ground
Written by Amy Seidl

eBook | Beacon Press | Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Nature - Ecology; Science - Environmental Science | $24.95 | 978-0-8070-8599-8 (0-8070-8599-5)

Dreams by Derrick Jensen

2011-04-05T00:30:00-05:00

Dreams
Written by Derrick Jensen

Trade Paperback, 624 pages | Seven Stories Press | Science - Environmental Science; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Body, Mind & Spirit - Spirituality - General | $24.95 | 978-1-58322-930-9 (1-58322-930-2)

Jensen's furthest-reaching book yet, Dreams challenges the "destructive nihilism" of writers like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris who believe that there is no reality outside what can be measured using the tools of science. He introduces the mythologies of ancient cultures and modern indigenous peoples as evidence of alternative ways of understanding reality, informed by thinkers such as American Indian writer Jack Forbes, theologian and American Indian rights activist Vine Deloria, Shaman Martin Prechtel, Dakota activist and scholar Waziyatawin, and Okanagan Indian writer Jeannette Armstrong. He draws on the wisdom of Dr. Paul Staments, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, sociologist Stanley Aronowitz, who discusses science's lack of accountability to the earth, and many more. As in his other books, Jensen draws heavily from his own life experience living alongside the frogs, redwoods, snails, birds and bears of the upper northwest, about which he writes with exquisite tenderness.
Having taken on the daunting task of understanding one's dreams as a source of knowledge, Jensen achieves the near-impossible in this breathtakingly brave and ambitious new work.

As the World Burns by Stephanie McMillan

2011-01-04T00:30:00-05:00

As the World Burns 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial-A Graphic Novel
Written by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan

eBook | Seven Stories Press | Comics & Graphic Novels - Literary; Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change | $14.95 | 978-1-58322-959-0 (1-58322-959-0)

Two of America's most talented activists team up to deliver a bold and hilarious satire of modern environmental policy in this fully illustrated graphic novel. The U.S. government gives robot machines from space permission to eat the earth in exchange for bricks of gold. A one-eyed bunny rescues his friends from a corporate animal-testing laboratory. And two little girls figure out the secret to saving the world from both of its enemies (and it isn't by using energy-efficient light bulbs or biodiesel fuel). As the World Burns will inspire you to do whatever it takes to stop ecocide before it’s too late.

Dead Heat by Paul Baer

2011-01-04T00:30:00-05:00

Dead Heat Global Justice and Global Warming
Written by Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer

eBook | Seven Stories Press | Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy | $11.95 | 978-1-60980-203-5 (1-60980-203-9)

Today's "extreme weather events" (record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and melting ice caps) foreshadow an increasingly unstable and dire future. Yet, despite all, the US government continues to reject the Kyoto Protocol, to deny the catastrophic consequences of oil dependency, and to define the politics of oil as the politics of U.S. unilateralism, domination, and war.
Dead Heat argues that justice—not rhetoric and "aid" but real developmental justice for the people of developing world—is going to be necessary, and surprisingly soon. It argues, more particularly, that such a justice must involve a phased transition from the Kyoto Protocol to a new climate treaty based on equal human rights to emit greenhouse pollutants. Dead Heat makes the case for climate justice, but insists that justice and equity, for all their manifold ethical and humanitarian attractions, must also be seen as the most "realistic" of virtues. It insists, in other words, that our limited environmental space will itself show that it is the dream of a "business as usual" future that is naïve and utopian.

Dreams by Derrick Jensen

2011-01-04T00:30:00-05:00

Dreams
Written by Derrick Jensen

eBook | Seven Stories Press | Science - Environmental Science; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Body, Mind & Spirit - Spirituality - General | $24.95 | 978-1-60980-128-1 (1-60980-128-8)

Early Spring by Bill McKibben

2010-03-01T00:30:00-05:00

Early Spring An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
Written by Amy Seidl
Introduction by Bill McKibben

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Beacon Press | Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Nature - Essays; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs | $15.00 | 978-0-8070-8597-4 (0-8070-8597-9)

With an engaging mix of memoir and science, Amy Seidl brings the reality of global warming to a personal level. As a mother, Seidl demonstrates how climate change has altered her daughters' experiences of their woods and garden, and the seasonal community events of her small New England town. As an ecologist, Seidl explains how natural upheaval occurs in the microcosms of our backyards and parks. While the human community, including Seidl's daughters, adapts to a changing climate, plants and animals also adapt, she shows, in ways both obvious and surprising.

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner by Fred Pearce

2009-10-01T00:30:00-05:00

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Written by Fred Pearce

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Beacon Press | Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Political Science - Globalization; Political Science - International Relations - Trade & Tariffs | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-8595-0 (0-8070-8595-2)

A 2008 Indie Next Pick

In Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce surveys his home and then sets out to track down the people behind the production and distribution of everything in his daily life, from his socks to his computer to the food in his fridge. It’s a fascinating portrait, by turns sobering and hopeful, of the effects the world’s more than six billion inhabitants have on our planet—and of the working and living conditions of the people who produce most of these goods.

Early Spring by Bill McKibben

2009-03-01T00:30:00-05:00

Early Spring An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
Written by Amy Seidl
Introduction by Bill McKibben

eBook | Beacon Press | Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Nature - Essays | $13.95 | 978-0-8070-9577-5 (0-8070-9577-X)

Global Warming For Beginners by Joe Lee

2008-12-30T00:30:00-05:00

Global Warming For Beginners
Written by Dean Goodwin
Illustrated by Joe Lee

eBook, 144 pages | For Beginners | Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change; Social Science | $14.95 | 978-1-934389-43-0 (1-934389-43-9)

The science is in: Global warming is for real. But what does it all really mean, and what can or should we do about it? This clear, fluid narrative by a leading scientist and educator takes a scrupulously balanced approach in explaining for the reader the history of global climate monitoring and change, and the who’s, how’s, what’s, when’s, where’s and why’s of the interaction between human activity and recent trends in the Earth’s climate.
Global Warming For Beginners is organized into five compelling sections:
Global Warming, An Introduction
The Cause
The Consequences
The Solutions
What Steps Can I Take?

Working from the premise that no one can do everything but everyone can do something, Goodwin challenges readers with experiments they can conduct to gain a better understanding of the science underlying the problems facing our planet, and concludes with a list of fifty easy actions people can choose from to start doing their part in the effort to slow or stop global warming.

As with all For Beginners titles, this volume is illustrated throughout with entertaining drawings that help readers understand and retain the information in Goodwin’s lively and comprehensive text.

Random House New Releases - Science - Global Warming & Climate Change

Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott

Ten Billion Written by Stephen Emmott

Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott

Ten Billion Written by Stephen Emmott

The Whole Story of Climate by E. Kirsten Peters

The Whole Story of Climate What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless ChangeWritten by E. Kirsten Peters

The Whole Story of Climate by E. Kirsten Peters

The Whole Story of Climate What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless ChangeWritten by E. Kirsten Peters

Fools Rule by William Marsden

Fools Rule Inside the Failed Politics of Climate ChangeWritten by William Marsden

Finding Higher Ground by Amy Seidl

Finding Higher Ground Adaptation in the Age of WarmingWritten by Amy Seidl

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins

The Man Who Planted Trees Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the PlanetWritten by Jim Robbins

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins

The Man Who Planted Trees Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the PlanetWritten by Jim Robbins

Fools Rule by William Marsden

Fools Rule Inside the Failed Politics of Climate ChangeWritten by William Marsden

Fools Rule by William Marsden

Fools Rule Inside the Failed Politics of Climate ChangeWritten by William Marsden

Finding Higher Ground by Amy Seidl

Finding Higher Ground Adaptation in the Age of WarmingWritten by Amy Seidl

Finding Higher Ground by Amy Seidl

Finding Higher Ground Written by Amy Seidl

Dreams by Derrick Jensen

Dreams Written by Derrick Jensen

As the World Burns by Stephanie McMillan

As the World Burns 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial-A Graphic NovelWritten by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan

Dead Heat by Paul Baer

Dead Heat Global Justice and Global WarmingWritten by Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer

Dreams by Derrick Jensen

Dreams Written by Derrick Jensen

Early Spring by Bill McKibben

Early Spring An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming WorldWritten by Amy Seidl Introduction by Bill McKibben

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner by Fred Pearce

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner Tracking Down the Sources of My StuffWritten by Fred Pearce

Early Spring by Bill McKibben

Early Spring An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming WorldWritten by Amy Seidl Introduction by Bill McKibben

Global Warming For Beginners by Joe Lee

Global Warming For Beginners Written by Dean Goodwin Illustrated by Joe Lee

Ten Billion
Written by Stephen Emmott

Ten Billion
Written by Stephen Emmott

The Whole Story of Climate What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change
Written by E. Kirsten Peters

The Whole Story of Climate What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change
Written by E. Kirsten Peters

Fools Rule Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
Written by William Marsden

Finding Higher Ground Adaptation in the Age of Warming
Written by Amy Seidl

The Man Who Planted Trees Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet
Written by Jim Robbins

The Man Who Planted Trees Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet
Written by Jim Robbins

Fools Rule Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
Written by William Marsden

Fools Rule Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
Written by William Marsden

Finding Higher Ground Adaptation in the Age of Warming
Written by Amy Seidl

Finding Higher Ground
Written by Amy Seidl

Dreams
Written by Derrick Jensen

As the World Burns 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial-A Graphic Novel
Written by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan

Dead Heat Global Justice and Global Warming
Written by Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer

Dreams
Written by Derrick Jensen

Early Spring An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
Written by Amy Seidl
Introduction by Bill McKibben

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Written by Fred Pearce

Early Spring An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
Written by Amy Seidl
Introduction by Bill McKibben

Global Warming For Beginners
Written by Dean Goodwin
Illustrated by Joe Lee