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03182cam a2200517Ia 4500 001 DB6C2EFC2B0E11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20221102014946 008 061030s2007 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2006052250 020 $a 0061137928 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780061137921 (pbk.) 020 $a 006113791X 020 $a 9780061137914 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d BTCTA $d GK8 $d VPL $d JQF $d BUR $d YDXCP $d NOR $d VP@ $d OCLCQ $d KRS $d CBC $d DCB $d IWN $d SILO 100 1 $a Ward, Peter Douglas, $d 1949- 245 1 $a Under a green sky : $b global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future / $c Peter D. Ward. 250 $a 1st Smithsonian Books ed. 260 $a New York : $b Smithsonian Books/Collins, $c 2007. 300 $a xiv, 242 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-224) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : Going to Nevada -- 1. Welcome to the revolution! -- 2 The overlooked extinction -- 3 The mother of all extinctions -- 4 The misinterpreted extinction -- 5 A new paradigm for mass extinctions -- 6 The driver of extinction -- 7. Bridging deep past with near past -- 8 The oncoming extinction of winter -- 9. Back to the Eocene -- Finale : the new Old World. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Extinction (Biology) 650 0 $a Paleoclimatology. 650 0 $a Global warming $x Environmental aspects. 941 $a 17 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702020516.0 952 $l AWPD207 $d 20230209012000.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518012113.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210903015406.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508014140.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926095734.0 952 $l IBAX173 $d 20180307021844.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180112043034.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PWAX296 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OTAX626 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l O4AX446 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DB6C2EFC2B0E11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 994 $a 01 $b IWNInitiate Another SILO Locator Search