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The Whale and the Supercomputer : On the Northern Front of Climate Change
The Whale and the Supercomputer On the Northern Front of Climate Change
Author: Charles Wohlforth
ISBN-13: 9780865477148
ISBN-10: 0865477140
Publication Date: 5/4/2005
Pages: 336
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Publisher: North Point Press
Book Type: Paperback
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FROM THE BACK COVER: Climate change isn't an abstraction in the far North; it's a reality that has dramatically changed daily life. The author follows two groups as they navigate a radically shifting landscape: the scientists who attempt to decipher its smallest elements and to derive from them a set of abstract laws and models, and the Alaskan natives who draw on uncanny accurate traditional knowledge born of long experience living close to the land. Together, they illuminate a world in flux and a way forward as climate change reaches us all.