Fixing climate : what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it
Record details
- ISBN: 9780809045013 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 080904501X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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p ; cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, 2008.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface : taming the beast -- 1. Pyramid Lake, 1955 -- 2. Finding science -- 3. Ice ages and the Serb theory -- 4. Proving Milankovic, doubting Milankovic -- 5. Carbon dioxide and the Keeling curve -- 6. Where the carbon goes -- 7. A conveyor belt in the ocean -- 8. Conveyor jams, climate lurches -- 9. Why worry? -- 10. Ice melts, sea level rises -- 11. Megadroughts of the past -- 12. The drying of the future -- 13. Green is not enough -- 14. Scrubbing the air -- 15. Disposing of carbon -- 16. Fixing climate. |
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Subject: | Climatic changes -- History Global warming Global warming |
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