TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flannery,Tim F.
TI  - The weather makers: how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth 
SN  - 0871139359 :
AV  - QC981.8.C5 F438 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Atlantic Monthly Press
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Global warming
N1  - "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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