Series
Publication
Imprint: New York : Abrams ComicArts, 2014. Context: Originally published in French in 2012 under the title Saison Brune by EĢditions Delcourt. Responsibility: Philippe Squarzoni ; introduction by Nicole Whittington-Evans, Alaska Regional Director, the Wilderness Society ; translated from the French by Ivanka Hahnenberger. OCLC Number: 858900256. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Features: Includes bibliography, index, sources.
Call number
Graphic / Squar
ISBN
9781419712555
Original publication date
2012
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CSS Library Notes
Description: Documentary, diary, and masterwork graphic novel, this up-to-date look at our planet and how we live on it explains what global warming is all about. Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science weaves together scientific research and interviews with experts to make the most complicated concepts clear.-- from jacket flap
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Physical description
435 p.; 24 cm
Awards
Description
"What are the causes and consequences of climate change? When the scale is so big, can an individual make any difference? Documentary, diary, and masterwork graphic novel, this up-to-date look at our planet and how we live on it explains what global warming is all about. With the most complicated concepts made clear by investigative journalist and artist Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Changed weaves together scientific research, extensive interviews with experts, and a call for action. Weighing the potential of some solutions and the false promises of others, this groundbreaking work provides a realistic, balanced view of the magnitude of the crisis that An Inconvenient Truth only touched on"--
Language
Original language
French
User reviews
LibraryThing member sushicat
In this volume, Squarzoni gives voice to experts from the IPCC to explain the science on an understandable level, to clarify the issues and complexities of what affects climate. He also addresses the misunderstandings and why it is so difficult to convey the messages properly. How variations of
Very readable, great art, information we all should have. Highly recommended.
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results are construed as disagreements and how particular interests work against reaching agreements. He lays out the magnitude of change needed and what effect our actions will have over time. And why change is so difficult. He also addresses the very personal impact this knowledge has for him.Very readable, great art, information we all should have. Highly recommended.
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LibraryThing member reader1009
graphic history/science, as related by a French writer. On the one hand, pretty good at explaining the science (what is true and what isn't so true) of climate change; on the other hand, an extremely bleak (though realistic and truthful) outlook for what that's going to mean for us in the coming
This is certainly the most serious book I've read in the graphic format (understandably, there were many, many panels just of various scientists/experts sitting there talking), but certainly worth reading and one that I would encourage others to pick up.
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decades/centuries. This is certainly the most serious book I've read in the graphic format (understandably, there were many, many panels just of various scientists/experts sitting there talking), but certainly worth reading and one that I would encourage others to pick up.
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