Virginia Climate Fever: How Global Warming Will Transform Our Cities, Shorelines, and Forests - Softcover

Nash, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081393995X ISBN 13: 9780813939957

Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2017

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"Stephen Nash employs a winning mix of insight, humor, and engaging prose to explore the adverse impacts humancaused climate change is now having on Virginia." -Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor, Penn State University "A surprising treatise, written in an engaging, storytelling manner. . . . Highly recommended."-Choice

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Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards. Yet the consequences of global warming are of an increasingly acute and serious nature.

In Virginia Climate Fever, environmental journalist Stephen Nash brings home the threat of climate change to the state of Virginia. Weaving together a compelling mix of data and conversations with both respected scientists and Virginians most immediately at risk from global warming's effects, the author details how Virginia's climate has already begun to change. In engaging prose and layman's terms, Nash argues that alteration in the environment will affect not only the state's cities but also hundreds of square miles of urban and natural coastal areas, the 60 percent of the state that is forested, the Chesapeake Bay, and the near Atlantic, with accompanying threats such as the potential spread of infectious disease. The narrative offers striking descriptions of the vulnerabilities of the state's many beautiful natural areas, around which much of its tourism industry is built.

While remaining respectful of the controversy around global warming, Nash allows the research to speak for itself. In doing so, he offers a practical approach to and urgent warning about the impending impact of climate change in Virginia.

 

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• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 081393995X
• ISBN 13: 9780813939957
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226