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Fixing climate : what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it / Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig.
Van Pelt Library QC981.8.C5 B738 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Broecker, Wallace S., 1931-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--History.
- Climatic changes.
- Global warming.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 253 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2008.
- Summary:
- An unconventional study of the issue of global warming focuses on the root cause of the problem--the influx of carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere--and argues that only the development of new technologies can reduce carbon dioxide output.
- Contents:
- Taming the beast
- Pyramid lake
- Finding science
- Ice ages and the Serb theory
- Proving Milankovic, doubting Milankovic
- Carbon dioxide and the keeling curve
- Where the carbon goes
- A conveyor belt in the ocean
- Conveyor jams, climate lurches
- Why worry?
- Ice melts, sea level rises
- Megadroughts of the past
- The drying of the future
- Green is not enough
- Scrubbing the air
- Disposing of carbon
- Fixing climate.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809045013
- 080904501X
- OCLC:
- 166390169
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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