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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.

By: Broecker, Wallace S, 1931-.
Contributor(s): Kunzig, Robert.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Hill and Wang, 2008Edition: 1st ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.Description: xvi, 253 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780809045013 (hardcover : alk. paper); 080904501X (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Climatic changes -- History | Global warmingDDC classification: 551.6 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.

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.

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.

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