The Alarmist : Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowe, Dave.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Carbon dioxide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wellington : Victoria University Press, 2022.

Summary:

alarmist (pre 2020): Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic.alarmist (post 2020): Someone who justifiably raises the alarm about a global danger to Earth's biosphere.His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it' s critical.In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist Dave Lowe was posted at an atmospheric monitoring station on the wind-blasted southern coast of New Zealand' s North Island. On a shoestring salary he measured carbon in the atmosphere, collecting vital data towards what became one of the most important discoveries in modern science.What followed was a lifetime' s career marked by hope and despair. As realisation dawned of what his measurements meant for the future of the planet, Dave travelled the world to understand more about atmospheric gases, along the way programming some of the earliest computers, designing cutting-edge equipment and conducting experiments both dangerous and mind-numbingly dull. From the sandy beaches of California to the stark winters of West Germany, the mesas of the Rocky Mountains and an Atlantic voyage across the equator, Dave has faced down climate deniers, foot-dragging bureaucracy and widespread comp

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

PART I: 1946-1972

1 A Surfing Salvation

2 The Atmosphere Calls Me

PART II: 1972-1975

3 Makara

4 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California

5 Baring Head

6 Alone in a Dark Place

7 The World Experts Meeting

PART III: 1975-1980

8 Meandering into the Light

9 Around the World to California

10 Jülich, West Germany

11 A Tale of Serendipity

12 Ireland and the Atlantic

PART IV: 1980-2007

13 The Country that Changed Us Forever

14 Fingerprinting Atmospheric Carbon

15 Rocky Mountain High

16 NIWA and Greta Point

PART V: 2007-2021

17 The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

18 Alarmists versus Deniers

Epilogue

Afterword

Author's Note

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Endnotes

Index.

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ISBN:

9781776564613

1776564618

OCLC:

1337069152