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The whale and the supercomputer : on the northern front of climate change  Cover Image Book Book

The whale and the supercomputer : on the northern front of climate change / Charles Wohlforth.

Summary:

Explores the attempts by two disparate cultures, the Eskimos who live and hunt along the coast of the Arctic, and Western scientists, who try and understand the climate changes that have occurred in the Arctic that have altered the lifestyles of the native peoples.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0865476594 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780865476592
  • Physical Description: xiv, 322 pages : maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : North Point Press, 2004.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Target Audience Note:
Adult Follett Library Resources
Adult
Subject: Inupiat > Fishing.
Inupiat > Social conditions.
Whaling > Arctic regions.
Ethnoecology > Arctic regions.
Human beings > Effect of climate on > Arctic regions.
Arctic regions > Climate > Mathematical models.
Climatic changes > Research > Arctic regions.
Global temperature changes > Research > Arctic regions.
Sea ice > Research > Arctic regions.
Albedo.
Arctic regions > Environmental conditions.
Inupiat.
Inupiat > Social conditions.
Whaling > Arctic Regions.
Indigenous peoples > Arctic Regions.
Artic regions > Climate.
Climate > Mathematical models.
Climate > Research.
Temperature > Research.
Icebergs > Research.
Earth > Surface.
Arctic regions.

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