Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth write by Molly Bang. This book was released on 2014-09-30. Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Acclaimed Caldecott Artist Molly Bang teams up with award-winning M.I.T. professor Penny Chisholm to present the fascinating, timely story of fossil fuels. What are fossil fuels, and how did they come to exist? This engaging, stunning book explains how coal, oil, and gas are really "buried sunlight," trapped beneath the surface of our planet for millions and millions of years.Now, in a very short time, we are digging them up and burning them, changing the carbon balance of our planet's air and water. What does this mean, and what should we do about it?
Buried Sunlight
Buried Sunlight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buried Sunlight write by Molly Bang. This book was released on 2014. Buried Sunlight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colorful illustrations and text introduce young readers to the fossil-fuel energy cycle that begins with sunlight caught by plants.
Rivers of Sunlight: How the Sun Moves Water Around the Earth
Rivers of Sunlight: How the Sun Moves Water Around the Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rivers of Sunlight: How the Sun Moves Water Around the Earth write by Molly Bang. This book was released on 2017-01-31. Rivers of Sunlight: How the Sun Moves Water Around the Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Three-time Caldecott Honor Artist Molly Bang and National Science Award-winning professor Penny Chisholm present a stunning, accessible explanation of the Earth's water cycle and its global effects. With stunning artwork and compelling scientific explanation, Bang and Chisholm have brought forth a masterpiece that is critically relevant in this environmentally tumultuous time. How does the sun keep ocean currents moving and lift fresh water from the seas? What can we do to conserve one of our planet's most precious resources? In this newest book in the award-winning Sunlight Series, readers learn about the constant movement of water as it flows around the Earth. As the water changes between liquid, vapor, and ice, Sunlight powers all living things, ensuring that life can exist on Earth.Perfect for any reader--young or old!--this is an invaluable addition to all classrooms, libraries, and at-home collections.
Living Sunlight
Living Sunlight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living Sunlight write by Penny Chisholm. This book was released on 2009. Living Sunlight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains the cyclical relationship between photosynthesis in plants and respiration in animals.
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels write by Alex Epstein. This book was released on 2014-11-13. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Could everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong? For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better. How can this be? The explanation, energy expert Alex Epstein argues in The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, is that we usually hear only one side of the story. We’re taught to think only of the negatives of fossil fuels, their risks and side effects, but not their positives—their unique ability to provide cheap, reliable energy for a world of seven billion people. And the moral significance of cheap, reliable energy, Epstein argues, is woefully underrated. Energy is our ability to improve every single aspect of life, whether economic or environmental. If we look at the big picture of fossil fuels compared with the alternatives, the overall impact of using fossil fuels is to make the world a far better place. We are morally obligated to use more fossil fuels for the sake of our economy and our environment. Drawing on original insights and cutting-edge research, Epstein argues that most of what we hear about fossil fuels is a myth. For instance . . . Myth: Fossil fuels are dirty. Truth: The environmental benefits of using fossil fuels far outweigh the risks. Fossil fuels don’t take a naturally clean environment and make it dirty; they take a naturally dirty environment and make it clean. They don’t take a naturally safe climate and make it dangerous; they take a naturally dangerous climate and make it ever safer. Myth: Fossil fuels are unsustainable, so we should strive to use “renewable” solar and wind. Truth: The sun and wind are intermittent, unreliable fuels that always need backup from a reliable source of energy—usually fossil fuels. There are huge amounts of fossil fuels left, and we have plenty of time to find something cheaper. Myth: Fossil fuels are hurting the developing world. Truth: Fossil fuels are the key to improving the quality of life for billions of people in the developing world. If we withhold them, access to clean water plummets, critical medical machines like incubators become impossible to operate, and life expectancy drops significantly. Calls to “get off fossil fuels” are calls to degrade the lives of innocent people who merely want the same opportunities we enjoy in the West. Taking everything into account, including the facts about climate change, Epstein argues that “fossil fuels are easy to misunderstand and demonize, but they are absolutely good to use. And they absolutely need to be championed. . . . Mankind’s use of fossil fuels is supremely virtuous—because human life is the standard of value and because using fossil fuels transforms our environment to make it wonderful for human life.”
