Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming due to human activities. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe in it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act, to make sacrifices now to prevent calamity in the future. How are we, ordinary civilians, supposed to do anything about a crisis for which we can barely sustain concern, of which our understanding...

This volume provides a step-by-step guide to offsetting climate change through gardens and landscaping. This book includes information, based on the latest climate research, on how to prevent climate change in your garden and beyond. It introduces climate science for gardeners and gives tips on reducing your landscape's climate footprint and even making your garden into a "carbon sink". This work provides strategies for placing trees, shrubs, and...

Includes data that were generated from the NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument, further processed into Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data. Also included are detailed descriptions of how the data were generated, formats and other pertinent information.