CO₂ rising
Subtitle: the world's greatest environmental challenge
By: Tyler Volk.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780262220835
Subjects: Atmospheric carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects; Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry); Carbon dioxide
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Front Matter
title: i-vi; label: Table of Contents
title: vii-viii; label: Preface
title: ix-xiv; label: Acknowledgments
title: xv-xviii; label: Introducing the CO2 Molecule and Its Carbon Atom
title: 1-14; label: From a Molecule in Beer to the Great Cycle of Carbon in the Biosphere
title: 15-26; label: The Worldwide Increase of CO2
title: 27-44; label: Fossil-Fuel Carbon Atoms Join the Biosphere
title: 45-64; label: Carbon’s Fluxes and Its Rate of Increase
title: 65-84; label: Time Capsules in Ice
title: 85-104; label: Wealth, Energy, and CO2
title: 105-132; label: How High Will the CO2 Go?
title: 133-156; label: Reining In the CO2 Increase
title: 157-188; label: The Ultimate Fates of Our Carbon Atoms
title: 189-206; label: Notes
title: 207-218; label: Index
title: 219-224