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010      2003019448 
020    0865476594|qhardcover|qalkaline paper 
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035    (Sirsi) i0865476594 
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100 1  Wohlforth, Charles,|d1963- 
245 14 The whale and the supercomputer :|bon the northern front 
       of climate change /|cCharles Wohlforth. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bNorth Point Press,|c2004. 
300    xiv, 322 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Map -- Preface -- Whale -- Inupiat -- Snow -- Lab -- Ice -
       - Supercomputer -- Signs -- Camps -- Spirit -- Challenge -
       - Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. 
520    A Traditional Eskimo Whaling Crew Races for shore near 
       Barrow, Alaska, while their comrades drift out to sea: ice
       that should be solidly anchored at this time of year is 
       giving way. Elsewhere, a team of scientists with frosty 
       beards traverses the breadth of Alaska, measuring the 
       thinning snow every ten kilometers in an effort to 
       understand albedo, the heat-deflecting property that helps
       regulate the planet's temperature. 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. Likewise, its heavy 
       Arctic footprint has lured scientists seeking to uncover 
       its mysteries. In this gripping account, Charles Wohlforth
       follows both groups as they navigate a radically shifting 
       landscape. Scientists drill into the environment's 
       smallest details to derive abstract laws that may explain 
       the whole. Natives know the whole through uncannily 
       accurate traditional knowledge built over generations. The
       two cultures see the same changes -- the melting of 
       ancient ice, the animals and insects in new places -- but 
       they struggle to reconcile their different ways of 
       comprehending what these changes mean. With grace, clarity,
       and a sense of adventure, Wohlforth illuminates both ways 
       of seeing a world in flux and, in the process, helps us to
       envision a way forward as climate change envelops us all. 
650  0 Inupiat|xFishing. 
650  0 Inupiat|xSocial conditions. 
650  0 Whaling|zArctic regions. 
650  0 Ethnoecology|zArctic regions. 
650  0 Human beings|xEffect of climate on|zArctic regions. 
650  0 Climatology|zArctic regions|xMathematical models. 
650  0 Climatic changes|zArctic regions|xResearch. 
650  0 Global temperature changes|zArctic regions|xResearch. 
650  0 Sea ice|zArctic regions|xResearch. 
650  0 Albedo. 
651  0 Arctic regions|xEnvironmental conditions. 
856 41 |3Table of contents|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048
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856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/
       description/hol041/2003019448.html 
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