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the 200-year story of global warming

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An edition of Greenhouse (1999)

Greenhouse

the 200-year story of global warming

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"There is no longer any doubt that the earth is warming: the question remains, why? For historian Gale Christianson, the emergence of global warming is one of the most compelling stories in the history of humankind, made all the richer for having been a slowly developing phenomenon.".

"Finding the clues to global warming both deep in the past and right before our eyes, Christianson introduces a memorable and unlikely cast of characters and events.

Scientists, inventors, and other pioneers are woven into the narrativeamong them, Joseph Fourier, the French natural philosopher who, at the turn of the nineteenth century, first envisioned the Earth as a bell jar, Richard Arkwright, who launched the modern factory system, and chemist Charles Keeling, who accidentally discovered, in 1955, that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were rising.

Their stories, in Christianson's crystal prose, urgently lead us to rethink what used to be called "man's place in nature.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Walker and Company
Language
English
Pages
305

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Cover of: Greenhouse
Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming
June 5, 2000, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
Cover of: Greenhouse
Greenhouse: the 200-year story of global warming
2000, Greystone Books
in English - 1st pb. ed.
Cover of: Greenhouse
Greenhouse: the 200-year story of global warming
1999, Constable
in English
Cover of: Greenhouse
Greenhouse: the 200-year story of global warming
1999, Greystone Books, D&M Publishers Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Greenhouse
Greenhouse: the 200-year story of global warming
1999, Walker and Company
in English
Cover of: Greenhouse
Greenhouse
June 1999, Greystone Books
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.

Published in
New York
Other Titles
200-year story of global warming, Two hundred-year story of global warming

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363.738/74
Library of Congress
QC981.8.G56 C48 1999, QC981.8.G56 C48 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 305 p. :
Number of pages
305

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL390020M
Internet Archive
greenhouse200yea00chri
ISBN 10
0802713467
LCCN
98055251
OCLC/WorldCat
98055251, 40521329
Library Thing
63721
Goodreads
2336343

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