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Global climate change : a primer / Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey ; with batik art by Mary Edna Fraser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934-2024.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Global temperature changes.
- Global warming.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (158 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands takes on climate change deniers in an outstanding and much-needed primer on the science of global change and its effects.
- Contents:
- Global changes and the greenhouse earth
- The impact of global changes
- Doubts, uncertainties, and qualms
- The manufacture of dissent : the global warming denial lobby
- The future of ice
- Global change in the oceans
- Disappearing civilizations
- Global change in the biosphere
- Plan B : geoengineering to the rescue?
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613266156
- 9781283266154
- 1283266156
- 9780822394662
- 0822394669
- OCLC:
- 743277962
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