Laboratory earth : the planetary gamble we can't afford to lose / Stephen H. Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Stephen Henry, author.

Series:

Science masters series.

Science masters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global environmental change.

Climatic changes.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : BasicBooks, [1997]

Summary:

World-renowned scientist and author Stephen H. Schneider depicts the next one hundred years as a potentially perilous period for climate and life--unless we citizens of Earth first recognize and then work to control the unintended global scale experiment we are foisting on ourselves and all other life on "Laboratory Earth." The "lab" is not built of glass, wires, and tubes, but of insects, soils, air, oceans, birds, trees, and people. While no scientist can claim to hae clairvoyant vision into the twenty-first century, Schneider demonstrates that enough is already known to command our attention and to ensure that the juggernaut of human impacts on Earth doesn't turn into a gamble we can't afford to lose.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: It's a Matter of Scale; 1 The Organic and Nonliving Earth: A Dynamic Cohesion; 2 The Coevolution of Climate and Life; 3 What Causes Climate Change?; 4 Modeling Human-Induced Global Climate Change; 5 Biodiversity and the Battle of the Birds; 6 Integrated Assessments of Policy Options; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-169) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-465-06690-9