Fixing Climate: The story of climate science - and how to stop global warmingWith 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. |
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Fixing climate: what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it
Nutzerbericht - Not Available - Book VerdictThe once arcane field of climate change has certainly moved up our agenda. Here, science writer Kunzig (Mapping the Deep) traces the influential career of Broecker (earth and environmental sciences ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
9 | |
Finding Science | 27 |
Cycles of Ice | 41 |
Orbits Arent Everything | 63 |
CO2 and the Keeling Curve | 84 |
Where the Carbon Goes | 101 |
A Conveyor Belt in the Ocean | 123 |
Abrupt Change | 139 |
Why Worry? | 155 |
Megadroughts of the Past | 187 |
The Drying of the Future | 205 |
Scrubbing the Air | 230 |
Disposing of Carbon | 246 |
Fixing Climate | 260 |
Acknowledgements | 278 |
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