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The Climate Mandate.

By: Contributor(s): San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1979Description: viii, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0716710544
  • 0716710552 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.31
LOC classification:
  • QC981.8.C5 R6 1979
Contents:
Ch.1 Harvests and human survival -- Ch.2 Weather, climate, and human affairs -- Ch.3 Climates of the past -- Ch.4 The weather and climate machine -- Ch.5 Forecasts, outlooks, intelligent guesses, and conjectures -- Ch.6 Climate, crops, and consumers -- Ch.7 Cloud seeders and plant breeders - technological prospects and limits -- Ch.8 Defining the Problem - Malthusian pessimists, social idealists, and technological optimists.
Summary: Blends history, political science, meteorology, and climatology to examine the interaction of climatic variation, food production, and population growth and the way they will influence the nature and quality of human life in the future.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC981.8 .C5 .R6 1979 1 Available 50583000235071
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC981.8 .C5 .R6 1979 2 Available 50583000235089
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC981.8 .C5 .R6 1979 3 Available 50583000235097
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC981.8 .C5 .R6 1979 4 Available 50583000235113
Total holds: 0

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 190-194.

Ch.1 Harvests and human survival -- Ch.2 Weather, climate, and human affairs -- Ch.3 Climates of the past -- Ch.4 The weather and climate machine -- Ch.5 Forecasts, outlooks, intelligent guesses, and conjectures -- Ch.6 Climate, crops, and consumers -- Ch.7 Cloud seeders and plant breeders - technological prospects and limits -- Ch.8 Defining the Problem - Malthusian pessimists, social idealists, and technological optimists.

Blends history, political science, meteorology, and climatology to examine the interaction of climatic variation, food production, and population growth and the way they will influence the nature and quality of human life in the future.

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