Fixing climate the story of climate science - and how to stop global warming / Robert Kunzig & Wallace Broecker.

• CONTENTS; Preface; Pyramid Lake, 1955; Finding Science; Cycles of Ice; Orbits Aren't Everything; CO 2 and the Keeling Curve; Where the Carbon Goes; A Conveyor Belt in the Ocean; Abrupt Change; 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; Acknowledgements; Picture Credits; Index. 

• With Broeker as his guide, award-winning science writer Robert Kunzig looks back at Earth's volatile climate history so as to shed light on the challenges ahead. Ice ages, planetary orbits, a giant 'conveyor belt' in the ocean ... it's a riveting story full of maverick thinkers, extraordinary discoveries and an urgent blueprint for action. Likening climate to a slumbering beast, ready to react to the smallest of prods, Broecker shows how assiduously we've been prodding it, by pumping 70 million tonnes of CO2 into the air each year. Fixing Climate explains why we need not just to reduce emissio 

Ämnesord

Klimatförändringar  (sao)

Global uppvärmning  (sao)

Klimatförändringar  -- prevention (sao)

Global uppvärmning  -- prevention (sao)

Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects. 

Climatic changes -- Prevention. 

Climatic changes. 

Global warming -- Prevention. 

Global warming. 

Climatic changes  (LCSH)

Global warming  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

QC981.8.C5 (LCC)

551.5 (DDC)

Uba (kssb/8 (machine generated))