Bibliograph

Fixing climate, what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it, Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig

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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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fixing climate

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

166390169

Responsibility statement

Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig

Sub title

what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it

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

Table Of 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

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