Ithaca is Gorges: a Guide to the Geology of the Ithaca Area

Robert M. Ross

Warren D. Allmon

Paleontological Research Insti

<p>The Marcellus Shale - a vast rock formation that holds a huge reservoir of natural gas - is at the center of one of the most controversial natural resources issues of our time. This is primarilybecause of the unconventional method used to extract gas from the shale - slickwater horizontal high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. Concerns about how widespread use of the practice will affect the natural environment - most especially freshwaters atthe local level and climate at the global level - have thrust geology into the public view in a way seldom otherwise experienced. This book reviews the major science and technology issues around this complex topic, offering impartial, evidence-based, thought-provoking information to help citizens decide what to do.This book is part of the Very Short Guide Series from PRI Publications.</p>

The Science Beneath the Surface: A Very Short Guide to the Marcellus Shale (PRI Special Publication no. 43)

Don Duggan-Haas

Paleontological Research Institution

<p>This book was written for teachers who could benefit from a "teacher-friendly" resource on climate change. Our focus audience is high school Earth science and environmental science teachers, but we expect that a much wider audience will find it useful, including educators of other grade levels, subjects, and contexts, as well as non-teachers who find the approach helpful. Ultimately schools may find it an effective strategy to incorporate climate change across disciplinary boundaries, including all STEM subjects, social studies, and other humanities. Climate change is a scientific issue, but it is also a historical, social, psychological, and economic issue that can only be deeply understood through mathematics, language and art. Like any book about a topic as complex and growing as climate change, this one is just a starting point, thus we have listed sets of resources at the end of each chapter. This book focuses on scientific aspects of climate change: how climate works and why scientists think it's changing, and the science and engineering behind the steps that would mitigate climate change and enable humans to adapt to climate changes that do occur. We focus especially on why scientists think human-induced climate change is happening, yet we do not present the existence of climate change as a debate. While all scientific hypotheses are, in principle, provisional, there is such a substantial set of independent evidence that climate change is happening now, built across decades by thousands of climate scientists internationally, that we treat the broad phenomenon of human-induced climate change as effectively "true." There is, however, scientific uncertainty about countless details such as the rates of change and interactions among components of the climate system; this is the nature of research on all complex systems, and is important to understand as an aspect of scientific practices.</p>

The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change

Ingrid H. H. Zabel

Benjamin Brown-Steiner

Alexandra F. Moore

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