Summary: Documents a Danish expedition by a team of scientists to hitherto unexplored fjords in northeast Greenland, which, due to the seasonal melting of glacial ice due to global warming, are now accessible for a few weeks a year.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EXPHerman, Gail
Summary: "Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet. The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development? While the vast majority of scientists who study the environment agree that humans play a large part in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 363.738 HERBell, Larry
Summary: A startling and authoritative look at the special-interest groups that have corrupted the climate change debate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 BELMack, Molly
Summary: "The planet is getting warmer, and its affecting everything from the climate to sea levels. Its also affecting Earths inhabitantsplants, animals, and people alike. In this information-rich title, readers learn about the phenomenon of global warming and how rising temperatures impact the future of our planet. Age-appropriate text, fact boxes, and detailed photographs make this complex topic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.7 MACCole, Joanna.
Summary: Ms. Frizzle takes her kids on a whirlwind tour, from the Arctic to the equator, so they can see telltale signs of climate change.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audio 2011
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J WHITE MAGCole, Joanna.
Summary: The climate challenge: Ms. Frizzle introduces her students to scientific facts about global warming, sharing accessible coverage of climate change and ways everyday kids can help to protect the environment.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012
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Summary: "The 2016 election left many people who are concerned about the environment fearful that progress on climate change would come screeching to a halt. But not Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope. Bloomberg, an entrepreneur and former mayor of New York City, and Pope, a lifelong environmental leader, approach climate change from different perspectives, yet they arrive at similar conclusions. Without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 BLOWilliams, Lily
Summary: Explores what would happen if the sea ice melts in the far north of the globe, causing the extinction of polar bears, and how it would affect environments around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.786 WILSummary: Former Vice President Al Gore presents evidence that the negative effects of global warming have increased since the release of the film "An inconvenient truth" a decade earlier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INCCopeland, Sebastian.
Summary: A collection of photographs documents the effect of global warming on the southern polar continent, in a volume that includes contributions by Will Steger, David De Rothschild, and Stephen Schneider.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Earth Aware 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 998 COPDonnelly, Karen J.
Contents: Amazing glaciers -- What is an ice age? -- The earth's orbit -- The Milankovitch theory -- Why are orbit cycles important? -- Temperatures on the rise -- Humans and global warming -- Climate history -- The earth's frozen past -- The land tells a story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.792 DONGore, Albert
Summary: With this book, the author, former Vice President Al Gore brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness - and with humor, too - that the fact of global warming is not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 GORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.73 Gore 2006Shelby, Ashley
Summary: " Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHEWells, Robert E.
Summary: Uses simple language and colorful illustrations to explain global warming to young children, including coverage of the role of fossil fuels in the warming of the atmosphere, the importance of Arctic ice, and suggestions for saving energy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 363.738 WelCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.73874 WELWolfson, Richard.
Summary: Twelve lectures on climate change and global warming presented by Professor Wolfson.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 551.6 WOLSummary: In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here--some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 DRABertagna, Julie.
Summary: In the year 2100, as the island of Wing is about to be covered by water, fifteen-year-old Mara discovers the existence of New World sky cities that are safe from the storms and rising waters, and convinces her people to travel to one of these cities in order to save themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION BertagnaBiskup, Agnieszka
Summary: "Team up with Max Axiom to learn all about global warming and its effects on the Earth. From melting glaciers to wacky weather patterns, heating up our planet wreaks havoc on its resources and inhabitants. Young readers will understand global warming and harness the power to help make a difference! Download the free Capstone 4D app for an augmented reality experience that goes beyond the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 363.738 BISCole, Joanna.
Summary: Ms. Frizzle takes her kids on a whirlwind tour, from the Arctic to the equator so they can see telltale signs of climate change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 363.73 Cole 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 570 COLGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: Tigluk and his grandmother paddle out into the Arctic Ocean where they find a young polar bear whose mother has died because of the changes brought about by the warming climate, and they bring the cub back to their town so they can teach it how to survive in a changing world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laura Geringer Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction George 2009Jackson, M.
Summary: "While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what happens when the climates of family and planet change. Jackson, a National Geographic Expert, reveals how these events are deeply similar and intertwined. She tells the story of her parents' struggles with cancer while describing in detail the planetary changes she's witnessed. Above all else, Jackson shows that even in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Writers Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551 JACPatterson, James
Summary: While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PATPeacock, Doug.
Summary: For the past 12,000 years, the earth has experienced a relatively stable climate. Today, that predictability has ended, and global warming is our new reality. Yet such shifting weather patterns threatened Homo sapiens once before, right here in North America as the continent was first being colonized. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the glaciers of the Late...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CounterPunch 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.738 PEAPerla, Victoria.
Summary: When global warming causes the ice at the North Pole to melt and Santa's roof starts to leak, he calls on the children of the world to come up with ways to help solve the problem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2008