Fixing climate
Subtitle: what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it
By: Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig
Contributors: Kunzig, Robert
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780809045013
Subjects: Climatic changes; Global warming; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Taming the beast; title: Pyramid lake; title: Finding science; title: Ice ages and the Serb theory; title: Proving Milankovic, doubting Milankovic; title: Carbon dioxide and the keeling curve; title: Where the carbon goes; title: A conveyor belt in the ocean; title: Conveyor jams, climate lurches; title: Why worry?; title: Ice melts, sea level rises; title: Megadroughts of the past; title: The drying of the future; title: Green is not enough; title: Scrubbing the air; title: Disposing of carbon; title: Fixing climate.