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  title info:
    title: Under a green sky
    sub title: global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they mean for our future
  name:
    name part: Ward, Peter D. (Peter Douglas)
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2007
    edition: 1st Smithsonian Books ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysm known as the Permian extinction destroyed nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle. Paleontologist Ward, fresh from helping prove that an asteroid had killed the dinosaurs, turned to the Permian problem, and he has come to a stunning conclusion: that the near-total devastation at the end of the Permian period was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate change. The story of the discovery makes for a globe-spanning adventure. Here, Ward explains how the Permian extinction as well as four others happened, and describes the freakish oceans--belching poisonous gas--and sky--slightly green and always hazy--that would have attended them. Those ancient upheavals demonstrate that the threat of climate change cannot be ignored, lest the world's life today--ourselves included--face the same dire fate.--From publisher description.
  table of contents: Welcome to the revolution! -- The overlooked extinction -- The mother of all extinctions -- The misinterpreted extinction -- A new paradigm for mass extinctions -- The driver of extinction -- Bridging deep past with near past -- The oncoming extinction of winter -- Back to the Eocene.
  note: Peter D. Ward.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Extinction (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Paleoclimatology
  subject:
    topic: Global warming
  classification: QE721.2.E97 W384 2007
  classification: 577.27/6
  identifier: 9780061137914
  identifier: 006113791X
  identifier: 2006052250
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 061030
    record change date: 20151105052328.0
    record identifier: in00002242706