Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (549 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807085979 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Global Changes on a Local Scale" according to Frederick S. Goethel. The vast majority of books about the effects of global warming fall into two general categories: they are shrill alarms about a catastrophe right around the corner, or they are scientific books filled with terminology that is dense, boring and difficult to read. Not so this volume, which is a. The Global as Local Early Spring is a personal reflection on potential disruption of natural ecosystems and human communities from anthropogenic climate change. Seidle asks questions that need our attention and offers informed speculation but cannot tell us the answers; nobody really knows.Early Spring is freque. also known as Moira said "2-1/2 stars, really." according to also known as Moira. I could tell by the end of the first chapter that I would never have bought this book for myself, and my feelings are quite strong due to the writing style of the author, the lack of real content, and what seems to be an underlying philosophical difference between the author and myself. I hav. -1/"2-1/2 stars, really." according to also known as Moira. I could tell by the end of the first chapter that I would never have bought this book for myself, and my feelings are quite strong due to the writing style of the author, the lack of real content, and what seems to be an underlying philosophical difference between the author and myself. I hav. stars, really.. I could tell by the end of the first chapter that I would never have bought this book for myself, and my feelings are quite strong due to the writing style of the author, the lack of real content, and what seems to be an underlying philosophical difference between the author and myself. I hav
In Vermont, she finds residents using nineteenth-century practices to deal with perhaps the most destructive twenty-first-century phenomenon. Seidl's poignant writing and scientific observations will cause readers to look at their local climate anew, and consider how they and their neighbors have adjusted to the reality of global warming.. But New England, a region whose culture is rooted in its four distinct seasons, is changing along with its climate.In Early Spring, ecologist and mother Amy Seidl examines climate change at a personal level through her own family's walks in the woods, work in their garden, and observations of local wildlife in the quintessential America of small-town New England, deep in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Seidl's testimony, grounded in the science of ecology and evolutionary biology but written with beauty and emotion, helps us realize that a natural upheaval from climate change has already begun: spring flowers blossom before pollinators arrive, ponds no longer freeze, and animals begin migrations at un
At Christmas, people are canoeing rather than skating; daffodils push through the ground in January; outbreaks of tent caterpillars, historically limited by winter deep freezes, stress the sugar bush. They can't depend on the ice to hold up. All rights reserved. Seidl's tender descriptions of her young daughters' encounters with the natural world—skipping rocks, choosing Halloween pumpkins from the garden and gorging on the abundance of cherries picked off the tree—add personal poignancy to a subject few can stand to talk about at any length. . (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly In