An edition of Under a green sky (2007)

Under a green sky

global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future

1st Smithsonian books ed.
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An edition of Under a green sky (2007)

Under a green sky

global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future

1st Smithsonian books ed.
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More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysm known as the Permian extinction destroyed nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle. Paleontologist Ward, fresh from helping prove that an asteroid had killed the dinosaurs, turned to the Permian problem, and he has come to a stunning conclusion: that the near-total devastation at the end of the Permian period was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate change. The story of the discovery makes for a globe-spanning adventure. Here, Ward explains how the Permian extinction as well as four others happened, and describes the freakish oceans--belching poisonous gas--and sky--slightly green and always hazy--that would have attended them. Those ancient upheavals demonstrate that the threat of climate change cannot be ignored, lest the world's life today--ourselves included--face the same dire fate.--From publisher description.

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Language
English
Pages
242

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Table of Contents

Welcome to the revolution!
The overlooked extinction
The mother of all extinctions
The misinterpreted extinction
A new paradigm for mass extinctions
The driver of extinction
Bridging deep past with near past
The oncoming extinction of winter
Back to the Eocene
The new old world.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
577.27/6
Library of Congress
QE721.2E97 W385 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 242 pages :
Number of pages
242

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26335511M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780739490433
ISBN 10
0739490435
ISBN 13
9780739490433
OCLC/WorldCat
669672591

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