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A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Woodland (Bur Oak Book)

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In 2010, at the same time as editing a report on the effects of climate change in Iowa, ecologist Cornelia Mutel came to grips with the magnitude and urgency of the problem. She already knew the basics: greenhouse gas emissions and global average temperatures are rising on a trajectory that could, within decades, propel us beyond far-reaching, irreversible atmospheric changes; the results could devastate the environment that enables humans to thrive. The more details she learned, the more she felt compelled to address this emerging crisis. The result is this book, an artful weaving together of the science at the back of rising temperatures, tumultuous weather events, and a lifetime devoted to the natural world. Climate change isn’t just about melting Arctic ice and starving polar bears. It’s weakening the web of life in our own backyards.

Moving between two timelines, Mutel pairs chapters about a single year in her Iowa woodland with chapters about her life as a fledgling and then professional student of nature. Stories of her childhood ramblings in Wisconsin and the solace she found in the Colorado mountains right through early adulthood are merged with accounts of global environmental dilemmas that have redefined nature right through her lifespan. Interwoven chapters bring us into her woodland home to watch nature’s cycles of life right through a single year, 2012, when weather records were broken time and time again. All through, in a straightforward manner for a concerned general audience, Mutel integrates information about the science of climate change and its dramatic alteration of the planet in ways that clarify its broad reach, profound have an effect on, and seemingly relentless pace.

It isn’t too late, she informs us: We will be able to still prevent the most catastrophic changes. We will be able to preserve a world full of biodiversity, one that supports human lives in addition to those of our myriad companions in the world. Finally, Mutel offers advice about steps We will be able to all take to curb our own carbon emissions and strategies We will be able to suggest to our policy-makers. 

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