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Fixing climate : what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it / Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig.

Author: Broecker, Wallace S., 1931-

Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, 2009.

ISBN: 9780809045020 (pbk.)
0809045028 (pbk.)

Description: xvi, 253 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

Subject: Climatic changes History.
Global warming.

Contents: Preface : Taming the beast -- Pyramid Lake, 1955 -- Finding science -- Ice ages and the Serb theory -- Proving Milanković, doubting Milanković -- 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.

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HWLC 4th Floor Adult QC981.8.C5B738 2009 Trade Paper Not checked out 04/09/2011