The weather makers : how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth / Tim Flannery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Global warming.

Physical Description:

xv, 357 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2005]

Summary:

Both an urgent warning and a call to arms, "The Weather Makers" outlines the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what people can do to prevent a cataclysmic future.

Contents:

The slow awakening

Gaia

The great aerial ocean

The gaseous greenhouse

The sages and the onion skin

Time's gateways

Born in the deep freeze

Making the long summer

Digging up the dead

The unraveling world

Peril at the poles

2050 : the great stumpy reef?

A warning from the golden toad

Liquid gold: changes in rainfall

An energetic onion skin

Playing at Canute

Model worlds

The commitment and approaching extreme danger

Leveling the mountains

How can they keep on moving?

Boiling the abyss

The pack of jokers

Civilization: out with a whimper?

A close-run thing

The road to Kyoto

Cost, cost, cost

People in greenhouses shouldn't tell lies

Engineering solutions?

Last steps on the stairway to heaven?

Bright as sunlight, light as wind

Nuclear Lazarus?

Of hybrids, minicats, and contrails

The last act of God?

2084 : the carbon dictatorship?

Time's up

Over to you.

Notes:

"Originally published in 2005 by Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, Australia"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [320]-343) and index.

ISBN:

0871139359

OCLC:

61123222

Publisher Number:

9780871139351