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050 00 $aQC981.8.C5$bF438 2005
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.
246 30 $aHow man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth
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.
520 1 $a"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 CO[subscript 2] emissions by as much as 70 percent."--BOOK JACKET
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.
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