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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change
1st edition cover.
AuthorElizabeth Kolbert
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherBloomsbury USA
Publication date
2006
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages225 pp (2007 paperback edition)
ISBN1-59691-125-5
OCLC62134789
363.738/74 22
LC ClassQC981.8.G56 K655 2006

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change is a non-fiction environmental science book by Elizabeth Kolbert that was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2006. The book documents a series of scientific observations and political processes, bringing attention to the causes and effects of global climate change. In this book, Kolbert is able to make scientific developments accessible to a very wide audience.

Synopsis

Kolbert travels around the world where climate change is affecting the environment in significant ways. These locations include Alaska, Greenland, the Netherlands, and Iceland. The environmental effects that are apparent consist of rising sea levels, thawing permafrost, diminishing ice shelves, changes in migratory patterns, and increasingly devastating forest fires due to loss of precipitation. She also speaks with many leading scientists about their individual research and findings. Kolbert brings to attention the attempts of large corporations such as ExxonMobil and General Motors to influence politicians and discredit scientists. She also writes about America’s reluctance in the global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Leading this resistance, she explained, was the Bush administration, which was opposed to the Kyoto Protocol since it was ratified in 2005. Kolbert concludes the book by examining the events surrounding the events of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and arguing that governments have the knowledge and technologies to prepare for such disasters but choose to ignore the signs until it is too late.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gosnell, Mariana (2006-03-16). "In Epoch of Man, Earth Takes a Beating". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  2. ^ Hansen, Jim (July 13, 2006). "The Threat to the Planet". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
  3. ^ Dolan, Katie (2010). "The Short Evolution of Climate-Change Literature". Conservation Biology. 24 (1): 356–357. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01413.x. JSTOR 40419670.
  4. ^ Manolas, Evangelos I. (2011). "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change". International Journal of Environmental Studies. 68 (3): 406–408. doi:10.1080/00207233.2011.578346. S2CID 96716395.
  5. ^ Kormondy, Edward J. (2006). "Reviewed work: Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, Elizabeth Kolbert". The American Biology Teacher. 68 (8): 508. doi:10.2307/4452052. JSTOR 4452052.
  6. ^ Asthana, Anushka (August 12, 2007). "Feeling the heat". The Guardian. United Kingdom.
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