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| Chronology of Climate Change | |
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| The Cast | |
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| Preface to the Paperback Edition | |
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| Preface: The Chimney | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Welcome to the Anthropocene | |
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| The Pioneers: The men who measured the planet's breath | |
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| Turning Up the Heat: A skeptic's guide to climate change | |
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| The Year: How the wild weather of 1998 broke all records | |
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| The Anthropocene: A new name for a new geological era | |
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| The Watchtower: Keeping climate vigil on an Arctic island | |
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| Fault lines in the ice | |
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| Ninety Degrees North: Why melting knows no bounds in the far North | |
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| On the Slippery Slope: Greenland is slumping into the ocean | |
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| The Shelf: Down south, shattering ice uncorks the Antarctic | |
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| The Mercer Legacy: An Achilles heel at the bottom of the world | |
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| Rising Tides: Saying "toodle-oo" to Tuvalu | |
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| Riding the carbon cycle | |
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| In The Jungle: Would we notice if the Amazon went up in smoke? | |
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| Wildfires of Borneo: Climate in the mire from burning swamp | |
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| Sink to Source: Why the carbon cycle is set for a U-turn | |
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| The Doomsday Device: A lethal secret stirs in the permafrost | |
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| The Acid Bath: What carbon dioxide does to the oceans | |
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| The Winds of Change: Tsunamis, megafarts, and mountains of the deep | |
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| Reflecting on warming | |
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| What's Watts?: Planet Earth's energy imbalance | |
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| Clouds From Both Sides: Uncovering flaws in the climate models | |
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| A Billion Fires: How brown haze could turn off the monsoon | |
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| Hydroxyl Holiday: The day the planet's cleaner didn't show up for work | |
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| Ice ages and solar pulses | |
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| Goldilocks and the Three Planets: Why Earth is "just right" for life | |
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| The Big Freeze: How a wobble in our orbit triggered the ice ages | |
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| The Ocean Conveyor: The real day after tomorrow | |
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| An Arctic Flower: Clues to a climate switchback | |
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| The Pulse: How the sun makes climate change | |
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| Tropical heat | |
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| The Fall: The end of Africa's golden age | |
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| Seesaw Across the Ocean: How the Sabara Desert greens the Amazon | |
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| Tropical High: Why an ice man is rewriting climate history | |
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| The Curse of Akkad: The strange revival of environmental determinism | |
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| A Chunk of Coral: Probing the hidden life of El Nino | |
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| Feeding Asia: What happens if the monsoon falters? | |
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| At the millennium | |
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| The Heat Wave: The year Europe felt the heat of global warming | |
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| The Hockey Stick: Why now really is different | |
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| Hurricane Season: Raising the storm cones after Katrina | |
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| Ozone Holes in the Greenhouse: Why millions face radiation threat | |
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| Inevitable surprises | |
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| The Dance: The poles or the tropics? Who leads in the climatic dance? | |
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| New Horizons: Feedbacks from the stratosphere | |
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| Conclusion: Another Planet | |
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| The Trillion-Ton Challenge | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes on the References | |
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| Index | |