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001 2005052350
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005 20150116082011.0
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050 00 $aQC981.8.C5$bF438 2005
082 00 $a363.738/74$222
100 1 $aFlannery, Tim F.$q(Tim Fridtjof),$d1956-
245 14 $aThe weather makers :$bhow man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth /$cTim Flannery.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press,$cc2005.
300 $axv, 357 p., [4] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"Originally published in 2005 by Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, Australia"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [320]-343) and index.
505 0 $aThe slow awakening -- 1: Gaia's tools -- Gaia -- The great aerial ocean -- The gaseous greenhouse -- The sages and the onion skin -- Time's gateways -- Born in the deep freeze -- Making the long summer -- Digging up the dead -- 2: One in ten thousand -- The unraveling world -- Peril at the poles -- The great stumpy reef? -- A warning from the golden toad -- Liquid gold: changes in rainfall -- An energetic onion skin -- Playing at Canute -- 3: The science of prediction -- Model worlds -- The commitment and approaching extreme danger -- Leveling the mountains -- How can they keep on moving? -- Boiling the abyss -- The pack of jokers -- Civilization: out with a whimper? -- 4: People in greenhouses -- A close-run thing -- The road to Kyoto -- Cost, cost, cost -- People in greenhouses shouldn't tell lies -- Engineering solutions? -- Last steps on the stairway to heaven? -- 5: The solution -- Bright as sunlight, light as wind -- Nuclear Lazarus? -- Of hybrids, minicats, and contrails -- The last act of God? -- The carbon dictatorship? -- Time's up -- Over to you.
650 0 $aClimatic changes.
650 0 $aGlobal warming.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1501/2005052350-d.html