TY  - BOOK
N2  - A traditional Eskimo whaling party races for shore while their comrades drift out to sea: ice that should be solidly anchored at this time of year is giving way. A team of scientists traverses the breadth of Alaska, measuring the thinning snow in an effort to understand albedo, the snow's reflective ability to cool the earth beneath it. Climate change isn't an abstraction in the Far North--it is a reality that has already altered daily life for Native people who still live largely off the land and sea, and lured scientists seeking to uncover its mysteries. Wohlforth follows both groups as they navigate a radically shifting landscape. The two cultures see the same changes, but they struggle to reconcile their different ways of comprehending what these changes mean.
AB  - A traditional Eskimo whaling party races for shore while their comrades drift out to sea: ice that should be solidly anchored at this time of year is giving way. A team of scientists traverses the breadth of Alaska, measuring the thinning snow in an effort to understand albedo, the snow's reflective ability to cool the earth beneath it. Climate change isn't an abstraction in the Far North--it is a reality that has already altered daily life for Native people who still live largely off the land and sea, and lured scientists seeking to uncover its mysteries. Wohlforth follows both groups as they navigate a radically shifting landscape. The two cultures see the same changes, but they struggle to reconcile their different ways of comprehending what these changes mean.
T1  - The whale and the supercomputer :on the northern front of climate change /
DA  - 2004.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Wohlforth, Charles P.
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - E99.E7
CN  - E99.E7
PB  - North Point Press,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2004.
ID  - 298342
KW  - Inupiat
KW  - Inupiat
KW  - Whaling
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Climatology
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Global temperature changes
KW  - Sea ice
KW  - Albedo.
SN  - 0865476594 (alk. paper)
TI  - The whale and the supercomputer :on the northern front of climate change /
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol053/2003019448.html
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003019448.html
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003019448.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol053/2003019448.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003019448.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003019448.html
ER  -