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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: Contributor(s): New York : Hill and Wang, 2008Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 253 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780809045013 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 080904501X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC981.8.C5 B738 2008
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC981.8 .C5 .B738 2008 1 Available 50583010327561
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC981.8 .C5 .B738 2008 2 Available 50583010327553
Total holds: 0

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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