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Atmosphere of hope : searching for solutions to the climate crisis / Tim Flannery.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection QC903 .F63 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Global warming.
- Climate change mitigation.
- Renewable energy sources.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 245 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Outlines a fast-approaching climate crisis while drawing on the latest scientific findings to outline promising clean technologies involving soft geo-engineering.
- Contents:
- Part One: Climate science. The weather makers: right or wrong?
- The waters of a warming world
- Ominously acidic oceans
- How are the animals doing?
- The great climate event horizon
- Part Two: The knife blade we perch on. The great disconnect
- Coal: decline of a giant
- What future, oil?
- Gas: last hurrah or bridge to the future?
- Divestment and the carbon bubble
- Where's nuclear?
- Sunlight and wind: winning the race
- At last, EVs
- Part Three: Fight for the future. Adapting?
- Geoengineering: a way out?
- The gigatonne challenge
- Silicate rocks, cement and smart chemistry
- The new carbon capture and storage
- The 2030 challenge
- Deadline 2050
- The growing power of the individual.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0802124062
- 9780802124067
- OCLC:
- 904813732
- Publisher Number:
- 99964540171
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