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Maya of the in-between / by Bennett, Sita,author.;
Dystopia, Utopia and the realm of gods intersect through the inter-dimensional seeings of one girl, Maya, The In-between. She is humanity's channel between life & death. Natural Disasters have devastated planet Earth and all life remains in one City. A City of iron and technology where citizens are safe but they are not free. Until recently, Maya lived there in hiding, painting visions of a vibrant valley where nature still thrives. She's a seer, a mystic, a feeler ... and a rebel. Life imitates art when she sees the young man she paints - A German officer, Bjorn - who tells her the land she's been painting is real, and he's determined to find it. In a race against the Control and a quest for truth and freedom, they escape the City and cross dimensions to seek the help of a sophisticated race of beings - keepers of the Earth's sacred mysteries - to save their planet from total self-destruction.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Climatic changes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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We speak through the mountain / by Mohamed, Premee,author.(CARDINAL)857470;
"The enlivening follow-up to the award-winning sensation The Annual Migration of Clouds. Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta's Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of Howse University. But life in one of the storied 'domes' -- the last remnants of pre-collapse society -- isn't what she expected. Reid tries to excel in her classes and make connections with other students, but still grapples with guilt over what happened just before she left her community. And as she learns more about life at Howse, she begins to realize she can't stand idly by as the people of the dome purposely withhold needed resources from the rest of humanity. When the worst of news comes from back home, Reid must make a choice between herself, her family, and the broken new world. In this powerful follow-up to her award-winning novella The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee Mohamed is at the top of her game as she explores the conflicts and complexities of this post-apocalyptic society and asks whether humanity is doomed to forever recreate its worst mistakes"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Climate fiction.; Apocalyptic fiction.; Novels.; Climatic changes;
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The great derangement : climate change and the unthinkable / by Ghosh, Amitav,1956-author.(CARDINAL)744380;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-196).Stories -- History -- Politics."Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, makes them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence-a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time."--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Climatic changes.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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Forecast : the consequences of climate change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley / by Faris, Stephan.(CARDINAL)492185;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.While reporting from Darfur, journalist Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and began to wonder what current and impending--and largely unanticipated--crises such changes have in store for the world. Here, he provides some answers. Global warming will spur the spread of many diseases. The warming world will shift huge populations and potentially redraw political alliances around the globe, driving environmentalists into the hands of anti-immigrant groups. America's coasts are already more difficult places to live as increasing insurance rates make them prohibitively expensive. Crops will fail in previously lush places and thrive in some formerly barren zones, altering huge industries and remaking traditions. Water scarcity in India and Pakistan have the potential to inflame the conflict in Kashmir to unprecedented. Told through narratives of current, past, and future events, this is an eye-opening account of this most urgent issue.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Climatic changes.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Climate since A.D. 1500 / by Bradley, Raymond S.,1948-(CARDINAL)175609; Jones, Philip D.(CARDINAL)204399;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Paleoclimatology.; Climatic changes.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Changing world : cold data for a warming planet / by Gibson, David,1969-author.(CARDINAL)462179;
"The terrifying effects of a warming planet are impossible to ignore, but sometimes it's hard to pick through the facts and to understand exactly what's happening and how."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Statistics.; Young adult literature.; Climatic changes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Climate cover-up : the crusade to deny global warming / by Hoggan, James,1946-(CARDINAL)564953; Littlemore, Richard D.(CARDINAL)495833;
Subjects: Climatic changes.; Climatic changes;
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This is climate change : a visual guide to the facts--see for yourself how the planet is warming and what it means for us / by Nelles, David,author.; Geisse, Janna,illustrator.; Kraiss, Stefan,illustrator.; Schwegler, Lisa,illustrator.; Serrer, Christian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.A visual all-in-one guide to climate change filled with easy-to-understand infographics explaining the latest scientific findings.
Subjects: Climatic changes.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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What is the impact of climate change? / by Blohm, Craig E.,1948-author.(CARDINAL)663489;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 72-73) and index."The earth's climate is getting hotter. Some progress toward slowing climate change is already being made. But time is running out. If the citizens of earth cannot work together to solve the climate change crisis, the next century will bring a world of disasters from which there will be no return"--Grades 10-12
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Climatic changes.;
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The last continent [videorecording] / by Lemire, Jean.; Sutherland, Donald,1935-; Entertainment One (Firm); Glacialis Productions.; Séville Pictures.;
Cinematography, Martin Leclerc, Mario Cyr, Stéphan Menghi ; mix, Serge Boivin ; composer Simon Leclerc with Patrick Watson ; editor, Michel Grou.Narrated by Donald Sutherland.This thrilling documentary chronicles a brave group of scientists on their 430-day adventure discovering the Earth's most fascinating and isolated continent, Antarctica.Not rated.DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science films.; Nature films.; Climatic changes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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