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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Primack, Richard B., 1950- Walden warming (DLC) 2013038942 (OCoLC)859253276 |
Named Person: | Henry David Thoreau; Henry David Thoreau; Henry David Thoreau |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard B Primack |
ISBN: | 9780226062211 022606221X |
OCLC Number: | 872115186 |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Borneo to Boston -- A hard rain -- Thoreau, scientist -- Phantom plants -- Wild apples and other missing flowers -- The strife in loosestrife -- The message of the birds -- Birds in the mist (net) -- Bees and butterflies -- From insects to fish to people -- Clouds of mosquitoes -- The frog chorus -- Running in the sun and rain -- A new Earth -- Afterword: citizen science. |
Responsibility: | Rrichard B. Primack. |
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Abstract:
In his notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. In the 160 years since his writings, warming temperatures have pushed blueberry flowering three weeks earlier. This book tracks the effects of a warming climate on Concord's plants and animals.
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"Thoreau, in Walden, proposed a 'realometer' to filter out prejudice and delusion. This eloquent new book fills that role for us, reminding us that global warming is not an abstract future proposition but a very profound current reality." (Bill McKibben, author of Oil and Honey: The Making of an Unlikely Activist)" Read more...
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