Fixing Climate: The story of climate science - and how to stop global warmingProfile Books, 09.07.2010 - 288 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
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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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