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A Sugar Creek chronicle : observing climate change from a midwestern woodland / Cornelia F. Mutel.
Van Pelt Library QC903.2.I6 M88 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mutel, Cornelia Fleischer.
- Series:
- Bur oak book
- A Bur oak book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Iowa--History--20th century.
- Climatic changes.
- Meteorology--Iowa--Observations.
- Meteorology.
- History.
- Iowa.
- Genre:
- History.
- Observations.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In 2010, while 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. 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 behind rising temperatures, tumultuous weather events, and a lifetime devoted to the natural world. 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 during early adulthood are merged with accounts of global environmental dilemmas that have redefined nature during her lifespan. Interwoven chapters bring us into her woodland home to watch nature's cycles of life during a single year, 2012, when weather records were broken time and time again. Mutel integrates information about the science of climate change and its dramatic alteration of the planet in ways that clarify its broad reach, profound impact, and seemingly relentless pace. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Place I Call Home 1
- Part I Winter
- 2 Weather & Climate Journal: January-March, 2012 11
- 3 Memoir: Awakening, 1947-1965 37
- Part II Spring
- 4 Weather & Climate Journal: April-June, 2012 51
- 5 Memoir: Learning, 1965-1975 85
- Part III Summer
- 6 Weather & Climate Journal: July-September, 2012 99
- 7 Memoir: Mothering, 1975-1997 135
- Part IV Autumn
- 8 Weather & Climate Journal: October-December, 2012 151
- 9 Memoir: Stilling, 1997-2012 183
- Part V The Seasons to Come
- 10 A Weather Review, 2012-2013 197
- 11 The Years to Come 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781609383954
- 1609383958
- OCLC:
- 924637541
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