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Author:

Ward, Peter Douglas, 1949-

Title:

Under a green sky : global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future / Peter D. Ward.

Edition:

1st Smithsonian Books ed.

Publisher:

Smithsonian Books/Collins,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Extinction (Biology)
Paleoclimatology.
Global warming--Environmental aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-224) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0061137928 (pbk.)
9780061137921 (pbk.)
006113791X
9780061137914

LCCN:

2006052250

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