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A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American SouthwestWith its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis based society close to the brink of a Dust Bowl scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs
With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States. Examining interrelated factors such as vanishing wildlife, forest die backs, and the over-allocation of the already stressed Colorado River--upon which nearly 30 million people depend--the author narrates the landscape's history--and future. He tells the inspiring stories of the climatologists and others who are helping untangle the complex, interlocking causes and effects of global warming. And while the fate of this region may seem at first blush to be of merely local interest, what happens in the Southwest, deBuys suggests, will provide a glimpse of what other mid-latitude arid lands worldwide--the Mediterranean Basin, southern Africa, and the Middle East--will experience in the coming years. Written with an elegance that recalls the prose of John McPhee and Wallace Stegner, A Great Aridness offers an unflinching look at the dramatic effects of climate change occurring right now in our own backyard.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/01/2013
ISBN: 9780199974672
Pages: 369
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
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Color: Champagne, Size: Queen
Very nice and silky.helps keep me cooler.
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Cool not cold
Color: Light Gray, Size: Queen
Super silky like material. Comfy and fits pillow perfectly. Wish it could be a more cold then cool.
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It’s ok could be cooler
Color: Light Gray, Size: Queen
Decent — could be cooler. They’re a nice color and texture. It fit my pillows well no annoying zippers it’s nice to sleep on and stay in place.
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Color: Champagne, Size: Queen
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Cool bedding
Color: Champagne, Size: Queen
As advertised nice and soft. But most of all cool. It really stays cool, especially on warm nights. A.
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