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The weather makers : how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth / Tim Flannery.

By: Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-.
Publisher: New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2005Edition: 1st American ed.Description: xv, 357 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0871139359 :.Other title: The weather makers : how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth.Subject(s): Climatic changes | Global warming
Contents:
The 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Climatic changes
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection QC 981.8 .C5 F438 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 693093

"Originally published in 2005 by Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, Australia"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-343) and index.

The 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.

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