Field Notes From A Catastrophe: Man, Nature, And Climate Change

Intro; Title Page; Dedication; Authorâ#x80;#x99;s Note; Contents; Preface; Part I -- Nature; 1 Shishmaref, Alaska; 2 A Warmer Sky; 3 Under the Glacier; 4 The Butterfly and the Toad; Part II -- Man; 5 The Curse of Akkad; 6 Floating Houses; 7 Business as Usual; 8 The Day After Kyoto; 9 Burlington, Vermont; 10 Man in the Anthropocene; Part III -- Time; 11 Ten Years On; 12 The Darkening Sea; 13 Unconventional Crude; 14 The Island in the Wind; Further Reading; Chronology; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography and Notes; A Note on the Author; Copyright Page.;Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today. But in the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding grows. Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She'll add a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus she'll add three new chapters'on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral'making it, again, a must-read for our moment.