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Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Nino ever recorded, the most devastating hurricane in two hundred years, the hottest European summer on record, and one of the worst storm seasons ever experienced in Florida. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point. [This book] is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Along with a riveting history of climate change, [the author] offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals, from investing in renewable power sources like wind, solar, and geothermal energy, to offering an action plan with steps each and every one of us can take right now to reduce deadly CO2 emissions by as much as 70 percent.-Dust jacket. Includes information on acidity in ocean, air pollution, carbon dioxide, climate change, coal, coral reefs, extinctions, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hurricanes, Kyoto Protocol, Montreal Protocol, oil, ozone, plankton, rainfall, solar power, sunlight, nuclear power, wind power, geothermal energy,
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Environmental degradation, Climatic changes, Réchauffement de la terre, Climat, Erwärmung (Meteorologie), Anthropogene Klimaänderung, Global warming, Changements, History, Environmental aspects, Weather, Observations, Climatology, Climactic changes, Rechauffement de la Terre, Environnement, Degradation, Human beings, effect of environment onShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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The weather makers: how we are changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth
2006, HarperCollinsCanada
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The weather makers: how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth
2006, Grove Press
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0802142923 9780802142924
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The weather makers: the history and future impact of climate change
2006, Atlantic Monthly Press
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0871139359 9780871139351
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The weather makers: how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth
2005, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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"Afterword to the Paperback Edition copyright c2006 by Tim Flannery." -- T.p. verso.
"Originally published in 2005 by Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, Australia"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-348) and index.
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"The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Originally somewhat of a global-warming skeptic, Tim Flannery spent several years researching the topic and offers a connect-the-dots approach for a reading public that has received patchy and misleading information on the subject. Pulling on his expertise as a scientist to discuss climate change from a historical perspective, Flannery also explains how it is interconnected across the planet." "Along with a history of how climate change has shaped our planet's evolution, Flannery offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals, from investing in renewable power sources like wind, solar, and geothermal energy, to offering an action plan with steps each and every one of us can take right now to reduce deadly CO2 emissions by as much as 70 percent." - jacket
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