Friday, October 2, 2009

Read 'N' Seed 1: Under a Green Sky

Hi guys, I needed to pick a different book so this has been updated! I chose "Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future" by Peter D. Ward . This book will cover a range of  environmental topics that seem to mostly be dealing with global warming. Such as at the end of the Permian period their was a rise in carbon dioxide that lead to a climate change which caused major destruction to species. Juding by the titles of many of the chapters this book talks a lot about extinctions and what could possibly be coming in the future. To give you a better idea the chapters are as follows:

1. Welcome to the Revolution
2. The Overlooed Extinction
3. The Mother of All Extinctions
4. The Misinterpreted Extinction
5. A New Paradigm for Mass Extinction
6. The Driver of Extinction
7. Bridging the Deep Past and Near Past
8. The Oncoming Extinction of Winter
9. Back to the Eocene
Finale: The New Old World.

I chose this book because after learning more about global warming in class, I think this book will be really interesting and offer a lot of new insight. I know this book is going to have a lot of facts in it, and from reading the first couple of pages Ward seems like he writes in a "non-lecturing" can of way that will be appealing. This book has 10 chapters and 204 pages. I am going to read  chapters 1 and 2  for the 1st quarter. Chapters 3-5 for quarter 2. Chapters 6-8 for quarter 3 and chapters 9 and the 'finale' for quarter 4.
Here are 3 links about the author and the book:

HaperCollins :This offers a summary of the book.

Wikipedia: This site has information about the author, Peter Ward.

Powells: This site offers a review of the book.

3 comments:

  1. This book seems really interesting! It will be cool to see if you like this book because if its good maybe ill borrow it from you. :)

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  2. This was one that my sister actually read and suggested for me to read, but I haven't yet, I hope you enjoy it!

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  3. I looked at this book and really thought about reading this one. I think you will get a lot of good information out of this book! Enjoy!

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