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The weather makers : how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2005]
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Climatic changes.
Global warming.
Table of Contents:
  • The slow awakening
  • 1: Gaia's tools
  • Gaia
  • The great aerial ocean
  • The gaseous greenhouse
  • The sages and the onion skin
  • Time's gateways
  • Born in the deep freeze
  • Making the long summer
  • Digging up the dead
  • 2: One in ten thousand
  • The unraveling world
  • Peril at the poles
  • The great stumpy reef?
  • A warning from the golden toad
  • Liquid gold: changes in rainfall
  • An energetic onion skin
  • Playing at Canute
  • 3: The science of prediction
  • Model worlds
  • The commitment and approaching extreme danger
  • Leveling the mountains
  • How can they keep on moving?
  • Boiling the abyss
  • The pack of jokers
  • Civilization: out with a whimper?
  • 4: People in greenhouses
  • A close-run thing
  • The road to Kyoto
  • Cost, cost, cost
  • People in greenhouses shouldn't tell lies
  • Engineering solutions?
  • Last steps on the stairway to heaven?
  • 5: The solution
  • Bright as sunlight, light as wind
  • Nuclear Lazarus?
  • Of hybrids, minicats, and contrails
  • The last act of God?
  • The carbon dictatorship?
  • Time's up
  • Over to you.