32 pages 1 hour read

Elizabeth Kolbert

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

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Index of Terms

Albedo

“Facing toward the sun, spectroradiometer measures incident light, and facing toward Earth, and measures reflected light. By dividing the latter by the former you get a quantity known as albedo” (29).

Anthropocene

A term coined by Nobel prize-winning chemist Crutzen to describe our present post-Holocene age, which is defined by man.

Climate Change

Defined in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as “A change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity” (151). 

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