Fixing climate : what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it / Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig.
New York : Hill and Wang, 2008Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 253 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 9780809045013 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 080904501X (hardcover : alk. paper)
- QC981.8.C5 B738 2008
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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.