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The parrot and the igloo : climate and the science of denial / David Lipsky.
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- Author(s): Lipsky, David, 1965-, author; W.W. Norton & Company, publisher.
- Language:
English- Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]- Publication Date:
2023- Physical Description:
xiv, 480 pages ; 24 cm- Publication Type:
Book- Document Type:
Non-fiction- Subject Terms:
- Availability: 10 Holdings
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- Additional Information
- Publication Information: First edition.
- Abstract: Summary: Explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life through a history of climate denial and its consequences.
- Content Notes: Preface -- Part one: Inventors. The message -- The hustler -- The promise -- The electrician -- The jubilee -- Part two: Scientists. The wayward wind -- The soda machine -- The tire prints and the smoke menace -- The geophysical experiment -- The overwhelming desire -- The fine noses -- The moles -- The brakes and the Indian -- The Yamal and the fence -- The global computer model -- The wood chips and the malaise -- The frog -- The unwarranted and alarmist report -- The undoing of Thomas Midgley -- The undoing II--red days -- The home of Donna Reed -- The pirate -- The pilot lights and somebody's wind -- Mark Mills -- Part three: Deniers. Old judge, or tobacco killed a cat -- Stocking and chairs -- Genetics -- A scientific gymnastic feat -- Wall of flesh -- Simple annihilation -- >First class -- Philosophers and priests -- Counterblaste -- A czarina enjoys the corporate Christmas party -- S. -- Emperor of the universe -- Who digested the scientists? -- Millions of guinea pigs -- Dinosaurs -- Committee on the care of children -- An exceptional case -- "Arthur Robinson is a good scientist"--Arthur Robinson -- Arthur and the world -- Jason Bourne's crestfallen itinerary -- Editing turns the mild into weather gods -- ASS and chair -- Glengarry Glen Monckton -- The business cards and the straight noodle -- Epilogue: The parrot and the igloo.
- Notes: 1 3 5 7 9 10 17 19 20 22
- ISBN: 9780393866704
039386670X - Accession Number: 2020475506
- Accession Number: 1385398234
- Accession Number: ccp.1147809
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