Fixing Climate What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat - and How to Counter It

Name: Fixing Climate What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat - and How to Counter It
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ISBN: 9780809045020

ISBN-10: 0809045028

ISBN-13: 9780809045020

Edition: 2009

Authors: Wallace S. Broecker, Robert Kunzig, Ws R. Broecker

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The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth scientist and an award-winning science writer,Fixing Climatetakes an unconventional approach to the problem of global warmingand offers a possible solution. Hailed by his colleagues as "one of the our greatest living geoscientists," Wallace S. Broecker, a longtime researcher at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, warned about the possible consequences of global warming decades before it became a compelling public issue. Hooked on climate studies since his student days, he has learned, largely through his own findings, that climate does changenaturally, dramatically, and rarely benignly. He also knows from…

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List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 3/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Robert Kunzig is European editor of Discover magazine, based in Dijon, France.



Preface: Taming the Beast



Pyramid Lake, 1955



Finding Science



Ice Ages and the Serb Theory



Proving Milankovi&cacute;, Doubting Milankovi&cacute;



Carbon Dioxide and the Keeling Curve



Where the Carbon Goes



A Conveyor Belt in the Ocean



Conveyor Jams, Climate Lurches



Why Worry?



Ice Melts, Sea Level Rises



Megadroughts of the Past



The Drying of the Future



Green Is Not Enough



Scrubbing the Air



Disposing of Carbon



Fixing Climate


Selected References


Acknowledgments


Index